As I type, CNN is reporting that Donald Trump, despite his public pronouncements, knows he lost this election. But some of his most ardent evangelical supporters still believe the president was re-elected. Today was a special day for the court...
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Here is your Thursday morning court evangelical update
More and more Republicans are implying that it is time to move on from this election and admit defeat. I wish more would step up and proclaim Biden president-elect so that the country can move forward, but most of them...
Friday morning court evangelical check-in
Jack Graham sends a subtle pro-Trump message using Psalm 68: And this: Not sure what this means, but I think it has something to do with the election: The part about Biden getting few evangelical votes than Hillary Clinton odes...
The court evangelicals are making their final case for Trump
Robert Jeffress is saying that not voting is a “sin against God.” Does he mean not voting is a sin or not voting for Trump is a sin? I agree with the Falkirk Center and Tucker Carlson: I am still...
David and Tim Barton: The Boston Tea Party was not a “riot.” Don’t you know they called it a “party?”
Thousands of white evangelicals get their history from David Barton (founder) and Tim Barton (president) of an organization called Wallbuilders. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txieT4ufDZI&w=560&h=315] In light of the recent peaceful protests and riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the Bartons...
Talking David Barton, Christian nationalism, court evangelicals, usable pasts, and a bunch of other stuff with Warren Throckmorton
Get some context for this conversation here. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmd3ymSGFe0&w=560&h=315]...
Why Os Guinness, Eric Metaxas, and David Barton are “dangerous”
Needless to say, I was glad to see Abram Van Engen of Washington University in St. Louis critique the way Os Guinness, Eric Metaxas, and David Barton are manipulating the American past. I also appreciate his shoutout to the Conference...
What is the National Association of Christian Lawmakers?
The National Association of Christian Lawmakers looks like another group of Christian Right politicians who want to create laws in the United States based upon a “biblical world view.” Here is the mission: Our nation is on the brink because...
David Barton’s appears with an African-American conservative who once “thanked God” for slavery
Jesse Lee Peterson is an African-American evangelical who hosts a radio program. Peterson: “Thanks God” for slavery and the “white man” who brought his ancestors to America. Does not believe woman’s suffrage. Is not happy that Muslims, non-Christians, and homosexuals...
Thursday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? They are still coming for Jesus: As I said in an earlier tweet…. the left is coming after Jesus and the apostles next. Not the statues but the historic faith of Christianity https://t.co/wO8INqFk0v —...
Monday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Greg Laurie is still suggesting that the United States was “born out of a revival.” I addressed the many problems with this view here. In fact, religious attendance and membership was at an all-time...
Tuesday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Rudy Giuliani shares a tweet from a spokesperson for Liberty University’s Falkirk Center. Notice how Giuliani uses Jenna Ellis’s tweet of Psalm 27 to make a political statement. When he says “we all...
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...
Os Guinness’s Appeal to the Past is Deeply Problematic
Watch Christian speaker and author Os Guinness deliver a speech titled 1776 vs. 1789: the Roots of the Present Crisis. It is part of an event hosted by the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Someone sent it to me...
David Barton: Governors Won’t Open-Up the Economy Because They Fear Death and Know They Won’t Go to Heaven When They Die
Here is Peter Montgomery of Right Wing Watch: Religious-right “historian” and Republican political activist David Barton said last week that governors have shut down the country out of fear and panic because America has become so secularized that people fear...
How Politics Shapes American History Textbooks
In a nice piece of investigating reporting and research (which she writes about in this companion piece), New York Times education reporter Dana Goldstein compared middle school and high school textbooks read by students in California and Texas. These books,...
Is GOP Activist David Barton, Using a Pen Name, Secretly Writing American History Textbooks?
Here is Glenn Beck: Glenn Beck claims that, using a pen name, religious right pseudo-historian David Barton has helped write history books that are being used in schools all over the country. pic.twitter.com/GRkSg54W4V — Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 28,...
David Barton’s Latest: The Reference to “Free White Persons” in the Naturalization Act of 1790 Was Meant to Curb Slavery
Earlier today on his Wallbuilders Live radio show, Christian Right activist David Barton made the following case about the Naturalization Act of 1790 and its assertion that citizenship in the new United States be afforded to only “free white persons”:...
Pastors Preaching Politics: It was Bad in 1776, it is Bad Today
400 evangelical pastors are heading to Liberty University this week to participate in an event sponsored by the American Renewal Project. The goal of the closed meeting is to mobilize pastors for the 2020 election. Speakers at the event include former...
What is Christian Nationalism?
In the wake of the recent statement by Christians opposing Christian nationalism, several folks have suggested that Christian nationalism does not exist and the authors and endorsers of this statement are trying to knock down a straw man. Translation: We’re...