Get up to speed here. Brian Zahnd being Brian Zahnd: Radical subjectivist Ed Stetzer? Not sure what this means. Sounds like some pretty intense SBC inside baseball: I will try to add some more throughout the day. Check back. UPDATE: […]
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Russell Moore leaves his Southern Baptist post. Joins Christianity Today
This was bound to happen sooner or later. Russell Moore, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is leaving his post to head-up a new public theology program at Christianity Today. There are a lot […]
Ed Stetzer: “there is…an evangelical reckoning to be had”
Ed Stetzer, the director of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center, has some important things to say about yesterday’s insurrection. Here is a taste of his post at Christianity Today: The way Trump has conducted himself cost Republicans the Senate […]
Mark Galli’s journey to Catholicism
In September we did a post on Mark Galli‘s conversion to Catholicism. Read it here. Over at Denver Catholic, Aaron Lambert sheds a bit more light on the faith journey of the former editor of Christianity Today. Here is a […]
Preliminary numbers: between 76% and 78% of white evangelical voters voted for Trump
The Associated Press says 78%. The National Election Pool says 76%. Whether it’s 76%, 78%, or 81%, the number is too large. I will probably have more to say about this in the coming days. Here is Christianity Today: ho […]
When the politics editor of *The Christian Post* refused to let the website become a court evangelical mouthpiece he had no choice but to resign
In December 29, 2019 Napp Nazworth, the politics editor of The Christian Post, resigned after The Post denounced Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editorial calling for the removal of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Now Napp Nazworth is […]
More on the Ravi Zacharias day spa scandal
Get up to speed here. In this podcast interview, Christianity Today reporter Daniel Silliman explains how he investigated this story. Several evangelicals who followed Ravi Zacharias were upset with me today for blogging about this story. Here is how the […]
Former *Christianity Today* editor Mark Galli will convert to Catholicism
I did not see this coming. Here is Yonat Shimron at Religion News Service: On Sunday (Sept. 13), Mark Galli will stand before Bishop Richard Pates in the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus in Joliet, Illinois, to hear these words: […]
J.I. Packer: 1926-2020
Evangelical theologian J.I. Packer has died. He was 93. Here is a taste of Leland Ryken’s obituary at Christianity Today: When Christianity Today conducted a survey to determine the top 50 books that have shaped evangelicals, Packer’s book Knowing God came in fifth. His fame […]
New Editor, Old Debate
About fifteen years ago I encouraged a student of mine at Messiah College to pursue an M.A. in American Church History at Wheaton College. After his first semester was complete we exchanged a few e-mails. He commented on how Wheaton […]
Scot McKnight’s *Jesus Creed* Moves to *Christianity Today*
I did not see any formal announcement about this, but I was glad to learn that McKnight’s very popular blog has moved to Christianity Today. Here is a taste of his recent post, “Christianity Tomorrow“: At no time in my […]
A Southern Evangelical Businessman Breaks With Trump
Fred Rand is an evangelical Christian and Memphis business man. He described his background in a recent piece at the Jackson (MS) Free Press: I cut my teeth as a College Republican working for Ronald Reagan in 1980. I have […]
My Piece Today at *USA TODAY* on the Evangelicals for Trump Rally
Here is a taste of “‘Evangelicals for Trump’ was an awful display by supposed citizens of the Kingdom of God“: At one point in his speech, Trump rattled off the names of the Fox News personalities who carry his water […]
Darryl Hart on Boston’s Park Street Church, Evangelicalism, and the “Ghost of Harold John Ockenga”
Harold John Ockenga was the pastor of Boston’s Park Street Church from 1936 to 1969. He was one of the early leaders of the neo-evangelical movement in the 1940s and 1950s. We normally associated the rise of neo-evangelicalism with people […]
*Christianity Today* Announces Its New Editor-in-Chief
His name is Daniel Harrell. Here is his bio: As of January, 2020, Daniel M. Harrell is Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today. Formerly, he served ten years as Senior Minister of Colonial Church, Edina, Minnesota, and for 23 years before that […]
The Dangers of the Court
Here is a taste of my recent piece at Religion News Service: “Courtiers and kings, evangelicals, prophets, and Trump“: (RNS) — Last Friday (Jan. 3), nearly every major conservative evangelical supporter of President Donald Trump gathered at the El Rey […]
The Many Problems With Eric Metaxas’s “Christian Case for Trump”
Eric Metaxas has once again turned to the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal in defense of Donald Trump. (Some of you may recall his October 12, 2016 op-ed in which he said “God will not hold us guiltless” if we […]
Richard Mouw Defends the *Christianity Today* Editorial
Richard Mouw is the former president of evangelical Fuller Theological Seminary. Here is a taste of his piece at Religion & Politics: “The Prophetic Witness of the Christianity Today Editorial“: At the risk of losing subscribers and harming their publication—which […]
Christianity Today’s Former Editor Mark Galli Debates Court Evangelical Richard Land on Boston Public Radio
The conversation occurred on WBUR-Boston. Listen here. Some of you may recall that Richard Land was behind the editorial that led to the resignation of its political editor Napp Nazworth. A few takeaways: Galli says he had been planning the […]
What is Populism?
I have been writing about populism in light of the recent Christianity Today editorial calling for the removal of Donald Trump. You can read my posts here and here and here and here. What is populism? How should we think historically […]