Yesterday we offered a “Bonus Roundup” on how American evangelicals are responding to the invasion. Today we have part two: Dinesh D’Souza, a favorite of conservative evangelicals and the former president of the evangelical The Kings College, is backing Putin: […]
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Evangelical leaders “face reckoning over praise for Putin”
Here is Steve Rabey at Religion Unplugged: For most of the past century, America’s conservative Christians and conservative politicians were united in the firm belief that the communist USSR — and later, Russia — was anti-American, anti-God and a threat […]
Bonus roundup: How are evangelicals responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
The European Evangelical Alliance says there is “no justification” for Putin’s invasion. National Association of Evangelicals: Former Trump lawyer, court evangelical, and Liberty University Falkirk Center fellow Jenna Ellis smells an opportunity to politicize the invasion: The Russian Evangelical Alliance […]
Evangelical roundup for February 24, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Russia is no friend to evangelicals in Crimea. If I am reading David Brody correctly, Justin Trudeau is on his way to hell for his response to the Canadian freedom convoy: Ukraine evangelicals prepare […]
Some brief reflections on “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill”
I had a couple of long drives this weekend so I was able to finish the last several episodes of “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.” A sustained review of the podcast will take more time than I have […]
Who is a fundamentalist today? George Marsden talks about the recent edition of his Fundamentalism and American Culture
Check out Marsden’s interview with Brian Kaylor at Word & Way: Marsden continues to affirm his view that a “fundamentalist” is a “militant evangelical.” This raises an interesting question. Is an evangelical who is a culture warrior a “fundamentalism?” Based […]
Evangelical roundup for February 21, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? David Brooks talks to Russell Moore, one of the subjects of his recent piece on dissenting evangelicals. Moore says “crazy has become a church-growth strategy.” Not everyone likes it: I don’t know this guy […]
Evangelical roundup for February 17, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Scot McKnight on why evangelicalism needs salvation. Now the Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center is going after Tim Keller: An evangelical pastor and theologian enters the debate on historians and activism. I am […]
Evangelical roundup for February 14, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals and the Canadian freedom envoy. An important evangelical voice laments: Mike Pence is giving the April 2022 commencement address at evangelical Columbia International University. Beth Moore is still living rent free in the […]
Evangelicals and small groups
Evangelicals love small groups. For many large churches, small groups are essential to building community, developing spiritual friendships, and strengthening the Body of Christ through the practice of prayer, Bible study, and fellowship. In an interesting and well-researched piece at […]
Evangelical roundup for February 10, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Thabiti Anywabwile is no longer an evangelical. This guy has a few things to say about it: Wayne Grudem is lecturing in a “Women of Momentum” series: Also this: How social justice and CRT […]
The Author’s Corner with Daniel Silliman
Daniel Silliman is News Editor for Christianity Today. This interview is based on his new book, Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith (Eerdmans, 2021). JF: What led you to write Reading Evangelicals? DS: The book had […]
Albert Mohler responds to David Brooks’ essay on evangelical reformers
Writing at WORLD magazine, the latest imperial conquest of the fundamentalist fiefdom over which he presides, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler has responded to David Brooks’s recent New York Times piece on evangelical dissenters. Let’s break it down: […]
Evangelical roundup for February 7, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Francis Collins says the “culture war is literally killing people.” He adds, “I am just basically heartbroken in a circumstance where, as an answer to prayer, vaccines have been developed that turned out to […]
A fuller (no pun intended) response to the David Brooks New York Times piece on evangelical dissenters
On Friday I posted on Brooks’s New York Times essay “The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself.” Shortly after I read the piece I got three wisdom teeth removed, so I am finally getting around to giving it a […]
Evangelicals trying to save evangelicalism
David Brooks has collected a list of evangelicals who are trying to “save evangelicalism from itself.” They are Thabiti Anyabwile, Tim Dalrymple, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Russell Moore, David Bailey, Karen Swallow Prior, David French, Rachael Denhollander, Beth Moore, Lecrae, […]
Evangelical roundup for January 31, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Former World Relief employee says the relief agency rescinded his job offer because he is in a same-sex marriage. We will see what happens here, but World Relief, as a religious organization, should have […]
The latest threat to Joe Biden’s life came from a Kansas man on a mission from God to “lop off the head of the serpent in the heart of the nation”
Here is Justin Rohrlich at The Daily Beast: A Kansas man claiming he had been told by God to travel to Washington, D.C., to “lop off the head of the serpent in the heart of the nation” has been charged […]
What is going on with Tony Evans?
Last summer we called attention to Dallas-area megachurch pastor Tony Evans’s efforts at racial reconciliation. He called it “Kingdom Race Theology.” As I wrote then: “First, Evans clearly believes in systemic racism and the value of critical race theory. Second, […]
Evangelical roundup for January 27, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? How the backlash to the Christian Right is reshaping evangelicalism. Timothy Keller on the “decline of evangelicalism“: Georgia gubernatorial candidates are fighting for the evangelical vote. Evangelicals still love Trump (and Pence): Are evangelicals […]