“I’m probably going to lose my job as a pastor after this.” Here is a guy named Tyler Ethridge at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. For those who cannot access the video, here is the transcript: I don’t...
Black Robed Regiment
Was there ever a “black-robed regiment”?
Recently evangelical writer and radio host Eric Metaxas interviewed Rev. Bill Cook, the “CEO” of the Virginia branch of the “black-robe regiment.” Watch: Some comments: There was no such thing as the “black robe regiment” in revolutionary America. Historian and...
Evangelicals and the January 6 insurrection
New York Times religion reporters Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham just published a piece on evangelicals and the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday. Here is a taste: Lindsay French, 40, an evangelical Christian from Texas, flew to Washington...
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...
Liberty University’s Falkirk Center meets all expectations at its “Get Louder” event
Yesterday, Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, the culture war wing of the largest Christian university in the world, held a 1-day conference titled “Get Louder: Faith Summit 2020.” Evangelical Trump supporters were encouraged to yell and scream more, fight more, and...
Court evangelical James Dobson invokes the Civil War in a letter to followers on the November elections
Read the entire letter here. Let’s break it down: Dobson: As I write this newsletter, voters across this nation are only a few short months away from the next general election. What an ominous time this is for our 244-year-old...
Tuesday Night Court Evangelical Roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since yesterday’s update? We already mentioned what Robert Jeffress said today about the “weak” evangelicals who are questioning their support of Donald Trump. He also did an interview with the alt-Right website Breitbart. [soundcloud...
Politically Motivated Violence Was Wrong During the Stamp Act and It Is Wrong Today. The Christian Right “Historians” Must Reckon With This
Everyone knows that the American Revolution was born through violent protest. Yes, the colonies fought a war that secured their liberty, but they also engaged in civilian violence in major British-American cities well before the outbreak of war. Here is...
Why Robert Jeffress Should Not Be Talking About American History
If you read this blog regularly you know about Robert Jeffress. Â He is the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas and one of the first evangelicals to endorse Donald Trump. Some of you remember that I debated...
Boston 1775 Debunks the “Black Robed Regiment”
Can you bring something back that may have never existed? J.L. Bell at Boston 1775 is good. Very good. A group of Christian nationalist evangelical ministers known as “The Black Robed Regiment” has been in the news recently. Dan Fisher, the Oklahoma state...