Jenna Ellis is celebrating with a bottle of what appears to be Trump champagne. She calls Biden “the worst president in American history” and describes as “incoming 47.” It apparently all comes down to complementarianism and “bad theology”: According to […]
evangelicals and politics
Russell Moore on Jimmy Carter’s salvation
Back In December, a podcaster asked Albert Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, if Jimmy Carter was a “born-again Christian.” Jimmy Carter always said he was a born-again Christian, but the podcaster’s question seemed to […]
Evangelicals respond to the death of Jimmy Carter
He was the first “born again” president and he was elected during Newsweek magazine’s “Year of the Evangelical.” So what are evangelicals saying about the recent death of Jimmy Carter? Christianity Today is running an obituary by historian David Swartz. […]
Did any evangelicals “hold their nose” and vote for Donald Trump in 2024?
At Baptist News Global, Robert Jones discusses the recent post-election findings from the Public Religion Research Institute. He writes: There is no evidence to support what I have identified as two “zombie myths” (because they just won’t die despite lack […]
Where are all these nationalist evangelicals who “seek to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free market economics?”
Some of you may recall historian Matthew Sutton’s claim that “post-World War II evangelicalism is best defined as a white, patriarchal, nationalist religious movement made up of Christians who seek power to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free market economics.” We […]
Franklin Graham on Trump’s victory: “Millions and millions of people were praying, and I believe God allowed it by his merciful hand”
Here is Graham at Decision magazine: We witnessed one of the greatest political comebacks in U.S. history as Donald J. Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, becoming only the second president ever to win two non-consecutive […]
Election Day was 18 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Christian conservative talk show host Steve Deace supported Ron DeSantis during the GOP primary season. But Trump’s cabinet picks have satisfied all his objections. Here is his entire tweet: I backed DeSantis in the primary because Trump showed no remorse/awareness […]
Election Day was 17 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
“Sunday came for Tony Campolo.” Steve Rabey helped Campolo write his memoir. It is coming out in February with Eerdmans. Here is a taste of Rabey’s piece on Campolo at Baptist News Global: Tony Campolo, an influential Christian pastor, professor, author, […]
Election Day was 15 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Christian Zionist Joel Rosenberg interviewed Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump’s recent appointment to serve as ambassador to Israel. Huck is the first evangelical Christian to ever be appointed to this position. Here is a taste of the part of the interview […]
Is Matt Gaetz an evangelical?
I don’t know what Matt Gaetz believes, but he certainly likes to run in evangelical circles and speak in evangelical language. Today, Gaetz is Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general. His sexual indiscretions seem to be catching up to him. […]
Election Day was two weeks ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Over at Christianity Today, Emily Belz reports on Christian sex-trafficking organizations opposed to the nomination of Matt Gaetz as U.S. attorney general. Here is a taste: Several Christian anti-trafficking organizations are publicly opposing President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for US attorney […]
Election Day was 13 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Steve Eng, the “advocacy director” of the National Association of Evangelicals, reflects on the presidential election: An NAE post-election statement encourages us to “pray for God’s guidance and blessing on those who have won, that they will be good stewards of the […]
Albert Mohler is free to advance his Christian nationalism, but he should be more careful when using American history to do it.
Albert Mohler believes that the United States was built, and should continue to be built, on a Christian foundation. Read his entire argument here. The piece stems from his 2024 speech to the National Conservatism Conference. Let’s see how Mohler […]
Mike Johnson is feeling the rush of power
Power is a heck of a drug. Just ask Mike Johnson. Watch: The conservative evangelical Speaker of the House appeared today on CNN’s State of the Union. During the interview, Jake Tapper played this clip of Mark Wayne Mullin talking […]
Election Day was 12 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
MAGA charismatic prophets got in wrong in 2020. Biden, not Trump, won the presidency. Now they are claiming that they were just off by four years. Katherine Fung is covering it at Newsweek. One such prophet, Johnny Enlow, believes his […]
Election Day was 11 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
World magazine is reporting that some evangelicals are concerned about Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general. But what fascinates me about Josh Schumacher’s piece at the conservative magazine is that none of the evangelicals he quotes in the […]
Election Day was 10 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
It looks like there is going to be some division in evangelical MAGA-land over some of Trump’s cabinet appointments. More than 80% of evangelicals voted for Trump and the president is “rewarding” them with an attorney general nominee who was […]
Are evangelicals “the cheapest date in politics?”
Some good analysis here from Jake Meador at Mere Orthodoxy. A taste: This is the broader point: There were two theories about evangelical voters in this election. One theory said that if we abstained or voted third party we were […]
Election Day was 9 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
I noticed a couple of things in today’s roundup: *** Jackson Posey, a writer for the Baylor Lariat, encourages his fellow students not to be anxious about the election results. Here is a taste: Donald Trump is soon to be […]
Election Day was 8 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Donald Trump has appointed Mike Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist preacher turned governor of Arkansas turned presidential candidate turned Christian television talk show host, the ambassador to Israel. Christian Zionist groups are very excited about the appointment. Here is Joel […]