What is going on in Evangelicalland? Eric Metaxas was in Lancaster, Pennsylvania last weekend and had a run-in with a Black Lives Matter protester. He also criticizes the people of Lancaster for wearing masks. Metaxas still believes that Donald Trump […]
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Unlike Evangelicals, Catholics have a high vaccination rate
A significant number of evangelicals do not want to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Catholics, on the other hand, have a high vaccination rate. Here is Robert David Sullivan at America: In an attempt to more closely examine the link between […]
Biden responds to evangelical World Relief’s call to raise the refugee ceiling
Evangelicals are doing good work. Here is a taste of Jack Jenkins’s reporting at Religion News Service: President Joe Biden’s administration has reversed a decision to keep in place a historically low cap on refugee admissions left by Donald Trump, […]
CNN does a documentary on an evangelical anti-vaxxer
CNN’s Elle Reeve apparently wanted to do a story on evangelicals and the COVID-19 vaccine. So she went to Tony Spell’s Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This is what she came up with: A few thoughts: The fact […]
Russell Moore: Young evangelicals are walking away because the church itself does not believe what the church teaches
This is Russell Moore at his best: Many of us have observed, anecdotally, a hemorrhaging of younger evangelicals from churches and institutions in recent years. What seems different about this quiet exodus is that the departures are heightened not among […]
Brazilian evangelicals oppose church closings
If you have been following the COVID-19 outbreaks in Brazil I think you will find an upcoming Current feature insightful. “How Long,” a piece by Brazilian public intellectual Alexandre Brasil Fonseca, will appear this week. Stay tuned. In the meantime, […]
The Author’s Corner with Crawford Gribben
Crawford Gribben is Professor of History at Queen’s University Belfast. This interview is based on his new book, Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest (Oxford University Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write […]
More on evangelicals and the COVID-19 vaccine
Francis Collins is an evangelical Christian and the director of the National Institute of Health. In a recent appearance on CBS News he called the COVID-19 vaccine “”an answer to prayer.” Watch: Franklin Graham also tried to get his followers […]
The president of the National Association of Evangelicals talks to NPR
Listen to the interview here. Kim talks about evangelicals and politics, the culture wars, purity culture, race, and his vision for evangelicals moving forward. Here is a taste of NPR’s summation: Kim didn’t grow up as an evangelical. He established […]
Franklin Graham thinks evangelicals should get the vaccine. He’s getting blowback.
In a previous post, I suggested that Donald Trump can do very little to convince his evangelical followers to take the vaccine. White evangelicals are the least likely group to take it. As part of that post, I wondered whether […]
Evangelist Luis Palau has died
Here is Morgan Lee at Christianity Today: Evangelist Luis Palau has died at age 86 of lung cancer. An immigrant from Argentina who made his home in the United States, Palau became one of Billy Graham’s most prominent successors and […]
When devout evangelicals reject the advice of their pastors and decide to storm the U.S. Capitol
Peter Manseau, the curator of American religious history at the Smithsonian, tells the story of Michael Sparks, an evangelical Christian who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Here is a taste of his piece at The Washington Post: […]
Sean Penn is confused
Some might say Sean Penn has been confused for a long time. There are indeed times when I can’t distinguish Penn from Jeff Spicoli. But in this post I am specifically referencing his recent tweet: First, the passive voice! Second, […]
White evangelicals love QAnon
Here is Jack Jenkins at Religion News Service: A new survey reports more than a quarter of white evangelical Protestants believe a QAnon conspiracy theory that purports former President Donald Trump is secretly battling a cabal of pedophile Democrats, and […]
Evangelicals need to learn how to corporately confess their sins
I mentioned Skye Jethani‘s thoughts on corporate confession and repentance in one of my posts on Justo Gonzalez’s Teach Us To Pray: The Lord’s Prayer in the Early Church and Today. Yesterday at Religion News Service, Jethani developed a few […]
Evangelical politics, even among Trump voters, is not monolithic
I have been talking to a lot of evangelical pastors in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. A lot of them tell a more complex story about evangelical Christianity in America than the one currently found in the press […]
What do evangelicals around the world think about American evangelicals?
René Breuel is a native of Brazil who currently pastors an evangelical church Rome. He has led evangelical student movements in Brazil, Germany, Canada, and Italy and is the author of The Paradox of Happiness: Finding True Joy in a […]
Where are the evangelicals in this diverse cabinet?
Over at The Washington Post, Yonat Shimron examines the religious affiliations of the member of Biden’s cabinet. Here is a taste: President Biden’s Cabinet is set to make history in a number of ways. If all the nominees he has […]
Franklin Graham asks, “Where does this hate [in America] come from?” (And other court evangelical news).
Eric Metaxas, radio host and fellow at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, is encouraging everyone to trust God in midst of this intense period of persecution for the church. The persecution, he claims, is coming from Marxists who removed him from […]
Evangelicals and the January 6 insurrection
New York Times religion reporters Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham just published a piece on evangelicals and the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday. Here is a taste: Lindsay French, 40, an evangelical Christian from Texas, flew to Washington […]