Cornerstone University president Gerson Moreno-Riaño has a piece at The Washington Times titled “America has an unending lust for bloodshed. We need divine intervention.” Read it here. Gerson Moreno-Riaño calls for an end to American “blood lust”: James Fenimore Cooper’s […]
evangelicals and politics
God at the GOP Convention: Night 2
There was more Christian language in the speeches from the convention floor in Milwaukee last night. This is definitely not a Christian Right convention. So far I have not heard a word about abortion or gay marriage. But speakers did […]
Eric Trump compares Christian Right concerns about the GOP platform to “worrying about spots on the wall in the basement” when there are “real holes in the roof.”
The GOP landscape is changing. The Christian Right is in a tough spot right now. If they want to pledge blind loyalty to Trump they will have to deal with his views on abortion and marriage. Here is Christian Right […]
Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins is trying to make sense of the new GOP political landscape. It doesn’t seem to be going well.
Life used to be easy for Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council (FRC). Back in the good old days, the FRC railed against Roe v. Wade and the LGBTQ agenda, tried to help the GOP gain political […]
What are evangelicals saying about day 1 of the GOP convention, including the VP pick of J.D. Vance?
We live-blogged night one of the Republican National Convention here. There were to highlights: the pick of J.D. Vance as Trump’s running mate and Trump’s first appearance after last weekend’s assassination attempt. Here are what some evangelicals are saying: Anti-Trump […]
Ryan Walters, David Barton, and Steve Deace call on evangelicals to help carry Trump to victory in November
Ryan Walters is Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction. He is calling for a “complete overhaul” of the Oklahoma social studies curriculum to emphasize Christianity and American exceptionalism. David Barton is a conservative activist who uses the past to promote […]
Jack Hibbs breaks out the black robe
Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills began his sermon yesterday with a video of the Trump assassination. And that was only the beginning. Watch: Let’s break it down: 2:00ff: Hibbs is wearing a “colonial preacher’s robe.” It commemorates the so-called […]
The “Ephesians 6:11” thesis of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump
I’ve been hearing a lot of calls for national unity today. Those calling for such unity believe that Thomas Matthew Crooks’s assassination attempt of Donald Trump will somehow bring the country together. Even Trump’s staunchest critics have rightly condemned the […]
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 […]
“REVIVAL OR BUST”
Earlier this week, Commonweal published my piece on the way the Christian Right uses the supposed links between the First Great Awakening and the American Revolution to advance its political agenda. And then this comes across my X feed today: […]
The disputed thesis that underpins MAGA evangelicalism
I have a piece today at Commonweal. Read it here. A taste: On April 5, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he would be streaming the Palm Sunday service at Harvest Christian […]
Evangelical prayer as a political weapon
Sean Feucht, wearing an “it’s not political, its spiritual” t-shirt, joins Samuel Rodriguez and Eric Metaxas in praying before Thursday night’s Trump-Biden debate. Praying for our leaders is a good thing. Using prayer as a political weapon is not a […]
Evangelicals respond to the Biden-Trump presidential debate
It is interesting to note that very few pro-Trump/anti-Biden evangelicals are talking about the more than 30 lies Trump told during the debate. There was very little Trump said on Thursday night that was true! Jemar Tisby: Bart Barber, outgoing […]
Eric Metaxas will interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I am sure there will be a lot of anti-vax conversation when these two guys get together. Metaxas is charging $100 for the event. Learn more here. I wonder if they will discuss some of these recent Metaxas tweets:
Jenna Ellis pleads “not guilty” to felony charges in Arizona
Jenna Ellis is back in the news today. The lawyer who helped Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and an outspoken evangelical Christian, pleaded “not guilty” today to forgery, fraud, and conspiracy charges in the Arizona “fake […]
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 […]
Is the Biden administration “demonic”?
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council thinks so: Sadly, this is the dominant form of evangelical political engagement these days. Politics as spiritual warfare. Historians like to talk about “contingency”–the choices people make that shape the future. There were […]
Trump court evangelical Mark Burns advances to a runoff for the GOP nomination in South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District
Readers of this blog know pastor Mark Burns. In July 2016, he offered a prayer at the GOP National Convention. He asked God to defeat the “liberal democrats” and said that the Republican Party is the “conservative party under God.” […]
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, […]
Ralph Reed explains why the Faith and Freedom Coalition supports Donald Trump
Reed recently talked with Michael Scherer, a political reporter at The Washington Post, about why his organization is endorsing Trump. Here is a taste: MR. SCHERER: I want to start with the news last week. We had the felony conviction […]