Ouch! There are reviews, and then there are REVIEWS. Kevin Williamson’s review of Megan Basham’s Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda is a REVIEW. I haven’t really been following all the publicity surrounding […]
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“White, patriarchal, nationalist Christians who seek power to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free market economics” for Kamala Harris?
Earlier this week, a group called “Evangelicals for Harris” met on a ZOOM call to explain why evangelicals should vote for Kamala Harris. Who are these “Evangelicals for Harris?” In a recent essay at the Journal of the American Academy […]
How are evangelicals responding to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump?
Many are offering thoughts and prayers today for former president Donald Trump and our nation. Trump’s supporters and his critics are condemning political violence. Here are how evangelical Christians are responding: Christianity Today has a piece here. Franklin Graham: Southern […]
Cornerstone University alumni react to the termination of Arts, Music, and Humanities programs
Cornerstone University recently terminated its Arts, Music, and Humanities programs. Tenured faculty were fired. Get up to speed here and here. Some of our sources in Grand Rapids have gathered these comments from Cornerstone alums and former students: A Journalism […]
The National Association of Evangelicals praises Biden’s executive action on undocumented immigrant’s spouses and children
Get up to speed here. Here is the National Association of Evangelicals release: The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) welcomes the announcement today that the United States will no longer deport the undocumented spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens […]
When evangelical leaders fail: Some thoughts from Augustine
Christianity Today news editor Daniel Silliman is trying to make sense of the recent spate of moral failures in evangelical leadership. Some good words here from Dan and Augustine: Today is not a day when I feel particularly optimistic about […]
Evangelical blast from the past
Source: Lancaster (PA) New Era, November 19, 1976. And for those who clicked on this post, here is a bonus from Campolo’s 1976 Congressional campaign. A “‘good man that nobody owns”: Source: The Pottstown (PA) Mercury, November 1, 1976.
The Southern Baptist Convention messengers reject the so-called “Law Amendment”
Today at their annual meeting in Indianapolis the Southern Baptist Convention rejected an amendment that would change the denomination’s constitution to clarify that the only kind of church in friendly cooperation with the convention is one that “affirms, appoints, or […]
If you want to get a sense of the state of conservative Christianity in America, check out the responses to David French’s recent New York Times piece
On Sunday we covered David French’s New York Times piece on getting canceled–literally canceled–by his former church, the Presbyterian Church in America. In that piece, we included some survey data I collected back in 2020 about how Trump, politics generally, […]
Tony Evans: “I am stepping away from my pastoral duties and am submitting to a healing and restoration process established by the elders…”
It looked like the biggest story from Evangelical land today was going to be the annual meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention and Presbyterian Church in America. Then this story broke on the website of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, the […]
Evangelical blast from the past:
Amy Grant tackles slavery and the Holocaust in 1988:
Christian ministries go remote
The deck of Daniel Silliman’s Christianity Today piece reads: “Evangelical organizations including Wycliffe, CT, and Lifeway are giving up their buildings and developing new models for remote work.” Here is a taste: A lot of office workers are discovering that […]
Special Evangelical roundup: The Trump verdict
Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felonies today. It’s only been a little more than an hour, but there are already plenty of early initial reactions from American evangelical Christians: Warren Throckmorton: Ryan Helfenbein of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom […]
Talking evangelicalism and race with Edward Carson
It’s not often I get to talk with a Black ex-evangelical who is a history teacher, DEI specialist, and member of the Communist Party USA. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with Eddie Carson on WJOP radio (Newburyport, Massachusetts). We talk […]
Fuller Seminary wants to be more LGBTQ-friendly
Here is Deepa Bharath at the Associated Press: Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical school in Pasadena, California, is deliberating whether to become more open to LGBTQ+ students who previously faced possible expulsion if found to be in a same-sex union. […]
Evangelical roundup for May 23, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Are evangelical churches growing? Evangelical leaders gather in Poland. Jim Wallis on Christian nationalism: The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) adds “character” to its standards for non-profits. World Vision is working to end […]
Evangelical roundup for May 20, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Is evangelicalism “loosening?” Does Donald Trump share the values of American evangelicalism? The National Association of Evangelicals explores racial justice and racial reconciliation: Shane on Gaza: French evangelicals supports a new law to combat […]
Robert Jeffress, Fox News, and pickleball before dawn
In this video, Fox & Friends interviews pro-Trump pastor Robert Jeffress at 5:41 AM. It’s dark, there is a pickleball referee on site, and there are cheerleaders. I also learned that First Baptist Church is known locally as the “Baptist […]
Evangelical roundup for May 16, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals prefer to be defined religiously, not politically. Two Christian Right representatives support aid to both Israel and Ukraine. World Relief celebrates International Families Day: The National Association of Evangelicals champions creation care: Are […]
The Presbyterian Church in America disinvites David French
Today The Arena blog at Current ran a piece by Marvin Olasky defending the Presbyterian Church in America’s decision to invite New York Times columnist David French to speak on a plenary panel at its upcoming General Assembly meeting in […]