What is happening in Evangelicalland? Love your neighbor. Get vaccinated. You should know about John Stott. He would have been 100 this week. Beth Allison’s Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood is blowing-up the evangelical internet: Not everyone is happy […]
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Evangelical roundup for April 26, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? An evangelical pastor is concerned about how students at conservative Christian schools and homeschoolers will remember January 6, 2021. It’s a legitimate concern, especially when you have folks like David Barton, Eric Metaxas, and Charlie […]
Michael Hammond is the next president of Gordon College
More big news in the Christian college world. Last month we reported that Taylor University, a Christian college in Upland, Indiana, announced former Gordon College president Michael Lindsay as its new president. Today we learn that Michael Hammond, a historian […]
Evangelical roundup: April 22, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? We covered the evangelical response to the Chauvin verdict in yesterday’s bonus roundup. (We’ve added a few more responses below). It looks like a lot of evangelicals are debating “wokeness”: Katelyn Beaty weighs in: David […]
What are evangelicals thinking about our country these days?
Here are some data I culled from the recent Morning Consult survey: 43% of Evangelicals believe the country is “going in the right direction.” 57% believe the country has “gotten off on the wrong track.” 47% of Evangelicals either “strongly […]
The second episode of “A History of Evangelicals and Politics” podcast is here!
Episode 1: “The Religious Making of a President” (our second episode) dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this brand new narrative history podcast. In this episode I talk about the differences between my conversion experience […]
Evangelical Roundup for April 19, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? Why are the people who operate in a culture that has a long history of individual and systemic racism always the people who can’t resist taking a shot at critical race theory? And why do […]
Liberty University sues Jerry Falwell Jr. for $10 million
I can’t keep up with all these Liberty University stories. Last week disgraced former president Jerry Falwell Jr. was touting the COVID-19 vaccine and catching a lacrosse game on campus. Earlier this week Liberty fired Trey Falwell, Falwell Jr.’s son. […]
CNN does a documentary on an evangelical anti-vaxxer
CNN’s Elle Reeve apparently wanted to do a story on evangelicals and the COVID-19 vaccine. So she went to Tony Spell’s Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This is what she came up with: A few thoughts: The fact […]
Mike Huckabee and Mike Pompeo join Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center (formerly Falkirk Center)
Charlie Kirk and Sebastian Gorka are out. Huckabee and Pompeo are in. Here is Kate Andrews at Virginia Business: Liberty University’s newly renamed think tank, the Standing for Freedom Center, has announced a slate of five new fellows, including former […]
Russell Moore: Young evangelicals are walking away because the church itself does not believe what the church teaches
This is Russell Moore at his best: Many of us have observed, anecdotally, a hemorrhaging of younger evangelicals from churches and institutions in recent years. What seems different about this quiet exodus is that the departures are heightened not among […]
Evangelical Roundup for April 15, 2021
I am experimenting with a new feature here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Let’s call it the “Evangelical Roundup.” I am building here off of my Trump-era court evangelical roundups. We will see how it goes. Eric Metaxas […]
Eric Metaxas continues to spread an anti-vaxxer message
Pick it up at the 10:00 mark: Here is an article on Dr. Ryan Cole, the doctor Metaxas cites in this video. Also here.
Brazilian evangelicals oppose church closings
If you have been following the COVID-19 outbreaks in Brazil I think you will find an upcoming Current feature insightful. “How Long,” a piece by Brazilian public intellectual Alexandre Brasil Fonseca, will appear this week. Stay tuned. In the meantime, […]
Some evangelical pastors want their congregations to avoid the “scam-demic” COVID-19 vaccine
We have been keeping eye on the resistance to the COVID-19 vaccine in some conservative evangelical quarters. Here is the lastest: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — At River West Palm Beach Church, Pastor Corey Erman stood in front of the congregation […]
The Author’s Corner with Crawford Gribben
Crawford Gribben is Professor of History at Queen’s University Belfast. This interview is based on his new book, Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest (Oxford University Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write […]
More on evangelicals and the COVID-19 vaccine
Francis Collins is an evangelical Christian and the director of the National Institute of Health. In a recent appearance on CBS News he called the COVID-19 vaccine “”an answer to prayer.” Watch: Franklin Graham also tried to get his followers […]
It is time for prominent evangelicals to get their acts together or stop speaking on behalf of Christianity
Mike Huckabee is a Baptist pastor, Trump court evangelical, Christian television celebrity, and former presidential candidate (he won the Iowa caucuses in 2008) and governor of Arkansas. He also appears to be a racist. Here is Matthew Brown at USA […]