Yesterday the Electoral College made it official. Joe Biden is President-Elect of the United States. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is still tweeting about election fraud: So now that the election is in the books, what are the court evangelicals saying? (Let’s...
Yesterday COVID-19 cases in the United States topped the 15 million mark. One of those cases is Trump election fraud lawyer and court evangelical Jenna Ellis. Joe Biden introduced his public health team. Donald Trump gave a COVID press conference,...
For many American evangelicals, Christian witness in the political sphere comes down to overturning Roe v. Wade. This is why the court evangelicals are so gleeful about Trump getting another Supreme Court nomination. This is also why they say virtually...
Earlier this evening, Donald Trump started his campaign with a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The number of coronavirus cases in Oklahoma is rising. Most of those who did attend the rally were not wearing masks. With the exception of U.S....
Earlier today, I published two posts on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on LGBTQ rights. The first post addressed the politics of the decision and what it means for white evangelical support for Donald Trump. The second post dealt with the...
We learned this during Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings. John Thelin, a historian at the University of Kentucky, reminds us that “yearbooks are documents that can go beyond casual nostalgia.” Here is a taste of his piece at Inside Higher Ed:...
Jeffress is more concerned with his theocratic agenda–an approach to American culture driven by fear, the raw pursuit of power, and a nostalgic longing for an age that is long gone or may never have existed in the first place–than...
There is little I disagree with in David Brooks’s analysis of Kavanaugh hearings. Here is a taste: These hearings were also a devastating blow to intellectual humility. At the heart of this case is a mystery: What happened at that party...
Read about the Nebraska senator’s speech from the senate floor tonight here. Now let’s see how he votes for Kavanaugh on Saturday....
Have you seen the latest in the Brett Kavanaugh affair? During his junior year at Yale, Kavanaugh got into a bar fight. During the fight his friend Chris Dudley, a 6’11” center on the Yale basketball team, smashed a glass...
In case you haven’t seen it yet, here is the “Kavanaugh Hearing Cold Opening”: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRJecfRxbr8&w=560&h=315]...
Joseph Diller, a junior at the University of Illinois, is correct. Here is a taste of his piece in The Daily Illini: “Conservatism killed Christianity“: The Kavanaugh issue is just a small part of the Republicans’ deal with the devil. In this deal, the...
Here are some of the findings: 72% of white evangelicals approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as president (and 44% “strongly approve). 71% of white evangelicals say that they will vote for a Republican in the 2018 midterms....
And their president, court evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr., was with them. The Lynchburg News & Advance reports: About 300 Liberty University students traveled to Washington, D.C. Thursday to support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who is under fire with two accusers alleging...
Kayla Koslosky has rounded-up some tweets and other commentary from evangelicals on the Deborah Ramirez accusation. Here is a taste of her piece at “Christian Headlines”: Many Christian leaders are offering their opinions on Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and...
Of course not. If it turns out that Kavanaugh did sexually assault Christian Blasey Ford (or someone else), he will still have the support of many conservative evangelicals. As Franklin Graham recently implied, the conservative evangelicals of the Christian Right...
Liberty University English professor and author Karen Swallow Prior on the Kavanaugh nomination and the Blasey Ford accusations: “I don’t expect we will ever know the truth about what did or did not happen. But as an evangelical Christian, I...
Here is Jeremy Peters and Elizabeth Dias at The New York Times: Worried their chance to cement a conservative majority on the Supreme Court could slip away, a growing number of evangelical and anti-abortion leaders are expressing frustration that Senate Republicans...
“We don’t have to hold hearings for Merrick Garland this year. The court is fine with eight justices, and there will be plenty of time to consider a new justice a year or so from now.” “WE MUST VOTE...
When you say that a female victim’s allegations are “irrelevant” and an anchor from the Christian Broadcasting Network pushes back… [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ljWlevaU0&w=560&h=315]...
