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, […]
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Religion and the election in Pennsylvania
Ivey DeJesus of the Harrisburg Patriot-News and Peter Smith of the Associated Press are covering Christianity and the 2024 presidential election in Pennsylvania. I was happy to help them with their stories. Here is a taste of DeJesus’s piece, “Some […]
Daniel K. Williams on “The Politics of the Cross”
Daniel Hummel of The Lumen Center in Madison, Wisconsin interviews Current contributing Daniel K. Williams about his book The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship. Watch:
8 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 […]
On evangelical Mike Johnson and Arnold Palmer’s genitalia
In case you haven’t heard, on Saturday night Donald Trump spent fifteen minutes talking about Arnold Palmer’s “manhood” in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Watch: Trump is crude and lewd. This is par the course for him. It is also par for the […]
Bonhoeffer family to Eric Metaxas: “We are horrified to see how the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is…being distorted and misused…”
Eric Metaxas’s use of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s legacy has caught the attention of the Bonhoeffer family. We’ve covered Metaxas’s misuse of Bonhoeffer here: Charles Marsh unleashes a devastating assault on court evangelical Eric Metaxas’s misuse of Bonhoeffer as it relates to […]
16 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 […]
This is what it looks like when an evangelical politician puts party over principle
Over at USA Today, George Fabe Russell describes House Speaker Mike Johnson’s interview yesterday with George Stephanopoulos: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Sunday refused to say former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden. During a heated interview with ABC News’ […]
Thirty days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
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
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 […]