What is happening in the world of evangelicals and politics: On Corey Booker’s 25 hour speech: On Trump’s tariffs: On free speech: On the Wisconsin Supreme Court election: Of course it was rigged, Lance: On immigration and refugees: Myanmar earthquake […]
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The second Trump presidency is two months old. What are evangelical saying?
Let’s check-in on the world of evangelicals and politics. Several high-ranking Trump officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, shared military strike plans on an unsecure Signal channel. Military strike […]
How a court evangelical thinks
If you want to get a good sense of how a court evangelical thinks, Jim Garlow‘s recent blog post is a good place to start. Garlow was an active court evangelical during Trump’s first term and earlier this week he […]
The Court Evangelicals 2.0 gathered today in the White House
Back in the first Trump administration I coined the term “court evangelicals” to describe the evangelical Christians who gathered around Trump. Here is a taste of a piece I wrote in January 2020: Last Friday (Jan. 3), nearly every major […]
I took a week off from blogging. What is happening on the evangelicals and politics front?
I took the last week off to write. (More on that later). What happened in the world of evangelicals and politics while I was gone? Let’s check in: Jenna Ellis offers another “lesson” in the politics of human dignity: Jenna, […]
Donald Trump says he was “saved by God to make America great again.” What are evangelicals saying?
Apparently God saved Trump to deport immigrants, fire federal employees without notice, start a trade war, cut aid to suffering people around the world, and bow to Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin. Let’s see what evangelicals are saying about Trump’s speech […]
Did God answer Franklin Graham’s prayer? Evangelicals respond to what happened today in the Oval Office
What an embarrassment for the United States of America. Watch: Some American evangelicals are responding: Did God answer Franklin Graham’s prayer?:
There’s some wild stuff going on right now on conservative evangelical social media
Some MAGA evangelicals are mad at the Philadelphia Eagles: Let’s start off with some facts The Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles have not rejected an invitation to the White House. But that did not stop many conservative evangelicals, looking for […]
Eric Metaxas rewrites the history of January 6
There are a lot of American evangelicals who get their American history from Eric Metaxas. In a recent segment of his radio show, Metaxas said that there were no violent protesters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Watch: […]
Trump: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” What are evangelicals saying?
According to The New York Times, this quote has been attributed to Napoleon, but its origins are unclear. Trump must have been dissatisfied with the amount of news coverage he was getting today. I can’t tell if Trump is serious […]
The Trump wrecking ball keeps swinging. What are evangelicals saying?
MAGA prophet Lance Wallnau once claimed that God told him that Donald Trump “is a wrecking ball to the spirit of political correctness.” Well, it looks the prophecy came true. The new president, with the help of Elon Musk, is […]
MAGA sets its sights on Wheaton College
Have you heard about this dustup? Read Kathryn Post’s piece at Religion News Service. Here is a taste: On Friday (Feb. 7), Wheaton College, the evangelical Christian school outside Chicago, publicly congratulated Russell Vought, a conservative activist and architect of Project 2025 […]
Roads Not Taken: Evangelicals and Politics, 1998-2006
Here is a taste of a lecture I gave last week at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. Scroll back to watch the entire lecture.
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for they will get an executive order.”
The day after Trump’s inauguration, the president attended an interfaith service at the National Cathedral. During the sermon, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde urged Trump to consider the human dignity of immigrants, refugees, and members of the transgender community. She spoke […]
More than six years ago I said this:
I still stand by this:
We are more than a week into the second Trump presidency. What are evangelicals saying?
The members of the Evangelical Immigrant Roundtable urge the Trump administration to respect religious freedom. Quotes from the leaders of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, World Relief, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the National Latino Evangelical Coalition. […]
Inauguration day was Monday. Evangelicals are still talking about the new administration. What are they saying?
Lance wants to replace NPR: Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA will now have correspondent in the press briefing room: Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody: Brody seems to believe that the primary reason Americans voted for Trump was his promise to […]
How dare this demonic “priestess” speak truth to Trump! (And other things evangelicals are saying in the wake of the inauguration).
Today at the Service of Prayer for the Nation at the Washington Cathedral, the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, confronted Donald Trump about immigrants. Watch: By the way: This is what speaking truth […]
As Inauguration Day winds down, what are evangelicals saying?
Evangelicals helped put him in office. Let’s see how what some of them have to say today. (We did a similar post yesterday.) Shane Claiborne quotes MLK on MLK Day: Albert Mohler chooses to write about Biden’s “mental abilities”: And […]
What Franklin Graham could have learned from Abraham Lincoln today
During the first Trump term, Franklin Graham was one of the many “court evangelicals,” the phrase I coined to describe the evangelical Protestants who frequented the White House—Trump’s “court”—to flatter him, get photo-ops with him, and influence him on public […]