We covered some of the original reactions to the attack on Paul Pelosi over the weekend, but in the last couple days the rhetoric of the Trump evangelicals is getting worse. If you want to understand how the pursuit of...
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Why infrastructure is so important
Here is Fareed Zakaria at The Washington Post: Every two minutes, a water main breaks in America. The total amount of treated water wasted every day is about 6 billion gallons, or 9,000 swimming pools. Every day! And it highlights why the...
Marjorie Taylor Greene goes on Trump court journalist David Brody’s show and compares House mask mandates to the Holocaust
Here is CNN: Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, during an interview on a conservative podcast this week, compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to continue to require members of the House to wear masks on the chamber floor to steps the...
Joe Biden did not mention God in his National Day of Prayer proclamation. Conservative evangelicals are not happy.
Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer. Biden issued a proclamation: Throughout our history, Americans of many religions and belief systems have turned to prayer for strength, hope, and guidance. Prayer has nourished countless souls and powered moral movements —...
What evangelicals are saying (and not saying) about Liz Cheney’s recent statements about the 2020 election
CNN gets us up to speed: Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, said on Monday her party cannot accept the “poison” of the idea that the 2020 election was stolen and should not “whitewash” the January 6...
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...
Trump’s evangelicals have a few things to say about impeachment
This afternoon the House impeachment manager showed these videos: And these: Here are some tweets worth considering: Why doesn’t it surprise me that Fox News cut away from the trial: Some of Trump’s favorite evangelicals are also weighing-in: The response...
David Barton: If someone calls you a homophobe, just call them “a heterophobe.” (And other news from the world of evangelical Trumpism)
Yesterday the Senate voted 55-45 to move forward with Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. The vote put an end to Kentucky senator Rand Paul’s constitutional objection to the trial. Most GOP senators supported Rand’s motion to kill the trial, but...
On the day of Biden’s inauguration, Trump evangelical John MacArthur tweets that the U.S. is officially “one nation in rebellion to God”
The Biden administration is here. What are the last president’s most loyal evangelicals saying about the inauguration? John MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, fired the first shot: I will just let this one sit for...
The court evangelicals love Martin Luther King Jr. (and other stuff)
Donald Trump is getting out of town on Wednesday morning. The coward is escaping to Mar-a-Lago before Joe Biden is inaugurated the 46th President of the United States at noon. News outlets are reporting that Trump will drop dozens and...
James Dobson on Biden’s election: “America and Western Civilization will never be the same.” (And other court evangelical news)
As I write, Washington D.C. is an armed camp. 25,000 National Guard members are ready to defend the U.S. Capitol during Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony on January 20. Meanwhile, people are still dying of COVID-19. Incoming President Joe Biden is...
Franklin Graham asks, “Where does this hate [in America] come from?” (And other court evangelical news).
Eric Metaxas, radio host and fellow at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, is encouraging everyone to trust God in midst of this intense period of persecution for the church. The persecution, he claims, is coming from Marxists who removed him from...
Today the court evangelicals are under intense religious persecution. Why? Because they might be kicked-off Twitter and Facebook.
There is a good chance that by the end of the week Donald Trump will be the first president in United States history to be impeached twice. Once again, I am reminded of Billy Graham biographer Grant Wacker’s words about...
Free speech! Free speech! The court evangelicals process the events of the last week.
It’s been a very ugly week in America. By this time next week, Donald Trump may be the only United States president to have been impeached twice. We are getting more and more disturbing images and videos from Wednesday’s invasion...
Antifa! Antifa! The court evangelicals prepare for spiritual warfare against Biden and the Democrats
We are learning more and more about the mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. They were Trump-supporters, extreme Christian nationalists, QAnon believers, militia groups, and other assorted thugs. Mo Brooks, a Republican representative from Alabama, still believes that...
An insurrection occurred at the U.S. capitol today. What are the court evangelicals saying?
We all know what happened today. I wrote about it earlier tonight in a post titled: “What happened today is a fitting ending to the worst presidential administration in American history.” The court evangelicals, a group of pro-Trump evangelicals who...
A lot happened over Christmas break. How did the court evangelicals respond?
Earlier today, I wrote about some of the highlights of the last ten days. I mentioned the Nashville bombing, Trump’s handling of end of the year legislation, the president’s continued attempts at overturning the 2020 president election, and the support...
The court evangelicals continue to mix biblical faith and Trumpism
So what has happened in the United States since our last court evangelical update? Donald Trump continues to claim he won the 2020 presidential election, refuses to sign Congress’s COVID-19 relief package, and pardoned two murderers and two members of...
Trump supporter says that prayer for “election integrity” may lead to the “Third Great Awakening.” (And other court evangelical news)
Russians are hacking the U.S. government and Trump remains silent. Thousands of people died today from COVID-19 and Trump remains silent (except when he takes credit for the vaccine in a tweet about the stock market). Meanwhile, Trump continues to...
You don’t congratulate someone who just robbed a bank (and other court evangelical news)
Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally acknowledged that Joe Biden was the “President-elect of the United States of America. He also warned GOP senators to stop contesting the election. Meanwhile, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has not said a...