evangelicalism

6 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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An evangelical pastor in Ligonier, Pennsylvania is still an undecided voter. He doesn’t read anything about national politics until one week before the election. According Olga Khazan at The Atlantic, this pastor is not alone. A taste: When Bryan Jarrell, […]

7 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Yesterday Donald Trump spoke to the members of his National Faith Advisory Board’s National Faith Summit in Powder Springs, Georgia. Newsweek covers it here. Watch: At about the 29:55 mark, Paula White says “we believe that God has saved you […]

8 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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David French has been a never-Trump from the beginning and he hasn’t wavered. Yesterday at The New York Times he offered four lessons he has learned during his nine years of never-Trumpism. They are: See how French unpacks these points […]

9 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Alex Morris of Rolling Stone, who writes regularly about the Christian Right, has a recent piece on evangelicals trying to convince their fellow believers to vote for Harris. It focuses on Evangelicals for Harris and Doug Pagitt’s Vote Common Good. […]

10 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Kamala Harris is not winning over many evangelical voters with recent comments on abortion. Here are a couple of lines from a Fox News story: Pro-life groups are livid at Vice President Kamala Harris after she took an uncompromising position on abortion […]

11 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Jerushah Duford has a piece in Newsweek yesterday making the case for Kamala Harris. Duford is noteworthy because she is an evangelical and the granddaughter of Billy Graham. It appears that she is voting for Harris based on the legacy […]

12 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Why haven’t conservative evangelicals, especially those of the MAGA variety, remained mostly silent about Donald Trump’s line about Arnold Palmer’s genitals? What happened to the Christian Right’s longtime concern about the coarseness of American culture? This morning I was writing […]

14 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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An evangelical farmer and Presbyterian pastor from Butler County, Pennsylvania is voting for Kamala Harris on November 5. As a farmer, he takes environmental stewardship seriously. So does Harris. As a pastor, he believes it is important to love his […]

16 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Just stuff from X today: Evangelicals are buzzing about remarks Harris made to pro-life activists who interrupted her recent rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Watch: Here is coverage from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: About 20 minutes into Harris’ speech, a […]

17 days until election day. What are evangelicals saying?

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The Associated Press is running an interesting piece about Asian-American evangelicals. They tend to be conservative in theology and conservative on social issues like gay marriage and abortion. But that doesn’t mean they all vote Republican. Like many Americans, older […]

18 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Today, fifty evangelical leaders from Wisconsin urged Harris, Walz, Trump, and Vance to “reflect biblical principles on immigration.” Evangelical relief agency World Relief was behind the letter to the candidates. The central argument is this: “The vast majority of American […]

19 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Franklin Graham is still very upset about how “Evangelicals for Harris” used his father’s image in a campaign ad. The man who has supported Donald Trump in the last two elections is suggesting that the Evangelicals for Harris crowd does […]

20 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Many on the Christian Right continue to remain nervous about surveys suggesting that large numbers of evangelicals may not vote in November. Over at the conservative website TownHall.com, a conservative writer named Rachel Alexander is shaming these evangelicals who plan […]

21 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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This week I helped Newsweek writer Khaleda Rahman with a piece on “Evangelicals for Harris.” Here is my contribution: Others were more skeptical that the group could sway enough evangelical voters toward Harris. “Frankly, I don’t think Evangelicals for Harris […]

Thirty days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

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Have you heard about “Project 19“? This is charismatic “prophet” Lance Wallnau’s name for the Seven Mountain Dominionist attempt to take 19 counties in the swing states that will decide the 2024 presidential election. They are Cobb County (GA), Fulton […]

Jimmy Carter’s Evangelical Faith

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Today Jimmy Carter became the first former US president to reach his 100th birthday. As a former president, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international human rights advocate, and author of dozens of books, Carter is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished […]

Evangelicals respond to last night’s Harris-Trump debate

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What a crazy night. Kamala Harris was relentless. To use boxing metaphors, Trump was on the ropes the entire night. Harris connected with relentless jabs and right hooks. The former president was on his heels through the entire debate. On […]

A bunch of white, patriarchal nationalist Christians who “seek power to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free market economics” held a baptism ceremony at Ohio State

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In a recent essay at the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, one of the most important journals in the study of religion, historian Matthew Avery Sutton writes: â€œ…post-World War II evangelicalism is best defined as a white, patriarchal, nationalist religious movement made up of Christians who […]