The guy running for governor of Pennsylvania on the GOP ticket says that he is not a Christian nationalist. But if I were to name one person who best embodies Christian nationalism in American politics right now I would pick...
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The great revival is coming and it will make America Christian again
Greg Laurie says it is coming and it will restore America to its Christian roots. Ted Cruz says it is coming and it will propel evangelicals into cultural prominence. Eric Metaxas and Greg Locke also say it is on its...
It appears we have a direct connection between Seven Mountain Dominionism and the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.
“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...
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...
Charismatic prophets at war
In Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, I wrote extensively about the so-called Independent Network Charismatics (INC). According to scholars Brad Christerson and Richard Flory, INC is the fastest-growing Christian movement in both the Western world and global...
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 —...
Christian Dominionism at CPAC
Charlie Kirk is the twenty-six-year-old founder of a Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump non-profit organization active on college campuses. He is also the co-founder of Liberty University’s Falkirk Center. (You can read our posts on the Falkirk Center here). Here...
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...
*The Guardian* and *Salon* Cover *Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump*
Here is Tom McCarthy at The Guardian: Meanwhile, Trump has addressed a central concern for white evangelicals that they are losing influence as a group and that the sun is setting on the United States they dream of – a nation...
Another Perspective on the *La Civilta Cattolica* Piece
Yesterday we did a post on Fr. Antonio Spadaro and Marcelo Figueroa’s article in the Vatican-sponsored journal La Civilta Cattolica ripping American evangelicalism and fundamentalism. Read it here to get up to speed. Over at the Catholic website Crux, Father Raymond J. de...
Glenn Beck: "I guarantee you the [history] professors at college will have the wrong answer"
Do you want your kids to have a two-week internship in the “historic library of [Glenn Beck’s ) Mercury One?” You can participate in this internship program with Beck’s studio historian David Barton for $375. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEsIu6qCPzc?ecver=2] If you want...
Revisiting Ted Cruz's Dominionism
Earlier this year I wrote a few things that connected Ted Cruz to the Christian political philosophy known as dominionism. In a piece I wrote for Religion News Service which was published in The Washington Post, I suggested the Cruz’s campaign...
David Barton at Liberty University
Russ Allen did his undergraduate degree in history at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and just completed his M.A. in history from Liberty University where he wrote an excellent thesis on Jonathan Edwards and children. Yesterday Russ found his...
Randall Balmer Has My Back on Ted Cruz's Dominionism
For some folks who read The Way of Improvement Leads Home the sentiment expressed in the title of this post is a good thing. For others it might be a bad thing. Whatever the case, I want to thank Dartmouth’s...
David Barton Doubles Down on 7 Mountain Dominionism
David Barton runs a very wealthy Ted Cruz super-PAC. I wrote about the connection between Barton and Cruz here and here. Barton compares God’s laws (613 in total, he says) for the Old Testament nation of Israel with the government...
On Left-Wing McCarthyism and My "Farcical" Take on Ted Cruz
A couple of weeks ago a friend called my attention to a Facebook post criticizing my Washington Post article about Ted Cruz’s dominionism. It was written by Robert Gagnon, a New Testament professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and, from what I...
"The Theology of Ted Cruz"
Here we go. This piece just appeared at Christianity Today. On the Sunday morning before this year’s South Carolina primary, Dr. Carl Broggi, the pastor of Community Bible Church in Beaufort, turned over his pulpit—emblazoned with the Protestant watchword “sola scriptura,”...
The BBC on Ted Cruz
Last week the BBC interviewed me for a radio documentary on Ted Cruz. Listen here. I come in at about the 19:25 mark....
David Barton and "Guilty By Association"
David Barton says that Ted Cruz is not a dominionist. He seems pretty upset about The Drudge Report‘s recent links to an Orlando newspaper that ran an article on Cruz drawing heavily from my Washington Post piece on his theo-political vision....
Rod Dreher and the Dominionism of Ted Cruz
I have taken a lot of heat from Ted Cruz supporters for my recent Religion News Service post (published in The Washington Post) about the candidate’s connection to dominionism and the so-called “end-times transfer of wealth.” If the e-mails filling my...