Peter Smith of the Associated Press reported on this last month. I must have missed his piece. If you are not familiar with my reference to DeSantis’s “Martha’s Vineyard stunt” get up to speed here. Here are some quotes from...
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Rick Warren’s library
Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California and the author of The Purpose Driven Life, has quite the library. He made so much money on his books that he now claims he gives away 90% of...
Joe Biden: Please stop using the Bible in political speeches
After a busy first week of classes I am finally getting around to this story. In the past I have been very critical of politicians who use the Bible to advance political ends. In the last administration I was particularly...
Franklin Graham “shames” the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump
Evangelicalism is an activist faith. Historically, evangelicals have preached a life-changing gospel. They have done amazing acts of service and justice in the world. We can’t ignore these things. Evangelicals have been a source of good. At the same time,...
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...
Fox News is discipling many white evangelicals
In January, Donald Trump launched “Evangelicals for Trump” at a Miami megachurch. After that event I wrote in USA Today: At one point in his speech, Trump rattled off the names of the Fox News personalities who carry his water […]
Ed Stetzer is Right About CNN’s Equality Town Hall
Here is a taste of the Wheaton College professor’s recent post at Christianity Today: I’m concerned with the clear and complete disregard around religious liberty. This term was used a few times, often with the phrase “so called” tacked on. Candidates would...
Ed Stetzer on the Trump Visit to McLean Bible Church
I agree with just about everything Ed Stetzer has written about this incident. I said something similar, but not as eloquently, here. For those Christians who have been criticizing David Platt from the left, I would ask several questions: What...
Why are White Evangelicals Ambivalent About Refugees and Migrants?
Over at VOX, Tara Isabella Burton tackles this issue. She wonders why so many evangelical leaders reject anti-immigration rhetoric and so many of their followers embrace it. Here is a taste: From his dismissal of “shithole countries” to his attempts to...
Paige Patterson “does not often get criticized without the critic receiving significant backlash”
Ed Stetzer‘s piece at Christianity Today confirms everything I have heard about Paige Patterson’s authoritarian rule at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Stetzer writes in the wake of this. Here is a taste: Because of the Conservative Resurgence and the role that...
Making Sense of Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen, the prosperity preacher who is the leader of the 38,000 member Lakewood Church in Houston, has been taking a lot of heat for apparently not opening his church to flood victims. I really don’t have enough information to...
Mark Silk on American Evangelicalism
Mark Silk is a veteran religion journalist who teaches at Trinity College (CT) and runs the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. He writes a regular column for Religion News Service called Spiritual Politics. In...
The Prophetic Witness of American Evangelicals
Ed Stetzer, the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College, gets it right in his recent piece at Christianity Today. According to Stetzer, “if you are unable to critique a president, you’ve lost your prophetic witness.”...