The Southern Baptists voted for their next president earlier today. Kate Shellnut has the first ballot results: As we reported in our last post, Ed Litton, senior pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama, is the new president. It was […]
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Supreme Court will take-up Mississippi abortion case
We will keep an eye on this. Here is CNN: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a key abortion case next term concerning a controversial Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks, rekindling a potentially major challenge to […]
Joe Biden’s Georgetown pastor: “The Eucharist is not to be used as a weapon”
The U.S. Conference on Catholic Bishops is divided over whether Joe Biden can uphold pro-choice policies on abortion and still partake of communion. Here is a taste of Michelle Boorstein’s piece at The Washington Post: The Rev. Kevin Gillespie, pastor […]
Why are some Catholics concerned about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine?
Steven Millies of the Catholic Theological Union clears this up for us in a piece at The Conversation. Millies address the belief, popular among many pro-life groups, that the vaccines use fetal tissue from aborted babies: To be clear, none […]
Does the Catholic Church have a Joe Biden problem?
Or does Biden have a Catholic problem? Biden is the second Catholic president in U.S. history. He also supports abortion rights. Over at The Atlantic, Emma Green interviews Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas. Here is a taste: Green: When […]
Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden respond to the COVID-19 relief package: “We feel used and betrayed”
From Ron Sider and Richard Mouw: Part of this letter confuses me. For example, as a pro-life Christian I voted for Joe Biden knowing full well that he was going to oppose the Hyde Amendment. (Unlike Mouw and Sider I […]
Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden responds to the COVID-19 relief package: “We feel used and betrayed”
From Ron Sider and Richard Mouw: Part of this letter confuses me. For example, as a pro-life Christian I voted for Joe Biden knowing full well that he was going to oppose the Hyde Amendment. (Unlike Mouw and Sider I […]
A feminist and atheist makes a case for the Hyde Amendment
The Hyde Amendment bars the use of federal funds to pay for abortions. Joe Biden, a Catholic, defended the amendment his entire political career until he ran for president in 2020. A draft of Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill does not […]
A Sunday morning check-in with the MAGA evangelicals:
Their rage has turned to Biden, Limbaugh haters, Timothy Keller, Twitter, Ted Cruz haters, and those controlling the seven mountains of influence. Here we go: David Brody on Trump’s “traditional biblical values.” Tweets like this explain why so many evangelicals […]
Mike Lindell thought his documentary would be a “miracle” that would “get us back to being one nation under God.” (Eric Metaxas nods his head in agreement).
The Trump impeachment trial begins today. I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t know what holds-up in a court of law, but how can anybody disagree with the idea that Trump is responsible for the insurrection? The impeachment trial will […]
Fox Business News cancels “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” Where will Trump evangelical Robert Jeffress go now?
“Lou Dobbs Tonight” was the highest-rated show on the network. Here is Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy at CNN: Lou Dobbs, the longtime host of the signature right-wing talk show on the Fox Business Network, was canned by the network […]
It’s time for another look into what is happening in the world of evangelical Trumpism
It seems like some of the election fraud and insurrection talk has died down a bit. Trump’s evangelicals are starting to settle-in to the reality that Joe Biden is president. This means that they are returning to more traditional talking […]
Did the Mexico City Policy lead to a reduction in abortions?
Yesterday President Joe Biden rescinded the so-called “Mexico City” rule. For those unfamiliar with this policy, here is some background from the Kaiser Family Foundation: The Mexico City Policy is a U.S. government policy that – when in effect – […]
Obama’s 2006 speech on religion and public life is worth reading amid our current moment
This morning I read Senator Barack Obama’s 2006 keynote address to Call to Renewal, a conference sponsored by evangelical activist Jim Wallis and Sojourners. You can read the entire speech here, but I found this section of the speech compelling: […]
White evangelicals are most concerned about abortion, fair presidential elections, and terrorism
Check out Jeff Brumley’s Baptist News Global story based on an interview with religious pollster Robert Jones. Jones points out that COVD-19 is not a “critical issue” for white evangelicalism. A taste: What stands out, Jones said, is the degree to […]
Why white evangelicals criticize the Black church
In the 1980s, when I was a student at a small Christian college, some of my professors warned us about the “liberal theology” of the civil rights movement. What Martin Luther King Jr. did was notable, they said, but he […]
Nicholas Kristof’s interview with Jim Wallis
The New York Times columnist talks with the progressive evangelical leader about Christianity. Wallis talks about “secular fundamentalists,” the meaning of the word “evangelical,” Christmas, and abortion. Here is a taste: Kristof: I’ve seen conservative evangelicals do heroic work, including […]
What happened at today’s “Jericho Rally” for Trump?
Today pro-Trump evangelicals and their friends gathered in Washington D.C for a “Jericho March” to “stop the steal” of the 2020 election. Eric Metaxas, the creator and star of the recent Joe Biden parody video in which he transposed a […]
Some court evangelicals are still keep pushing the voter fraud narrative. Others are angry with Obama.
It is Thanksgiving. Yesterday Donald Trump’s legal team was in Gettysburg for an election fraud hearing. GOP state legislators hosted the event. The day included testimonies from Pennsylvanians who claimed to have witnessed voter fraud on November 3 and in […]
Did the Christian rapper Lecrae just plagiarize one of my blog posts? (UPDATED)
I agree with everything Lecrae wrote in the following tweet. That is because I said nearly the exact same thing on this blog last week. Don’t get me wrong, I am glad the popular Christian rapper is getting the message […]