I wrote yesterday: Essentially, Trump is throwing the pro-life movement under the bus. He and his team believe that they can win in 2024 with a more moderate pro-life view on abortion. To put this more crudely, pro-life conservative evangelicals...
Watch Christian commentator and author Os Guinness at the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand Summit”: Guinness sounds like an old Federalist–a defender of order. He, of course, is free to take such a position. But his view of the...
I was recently talking to a conservative evangelical Christian who has read all of Messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn‘s books. Cahn has a huge following in the certain sectors of the evangelical world. Back in 2019, The New York Times ran...
Evangelical Bush supporters are angry at the new chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee Episode 48: “The Christian Right Against Arlen Specter’” dropped today. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above have access to new episodes of this narrative history podcast. Here...
The Christian Right responds to the Senate’s decision not to pursue a Federal Marriage Amendment Episode 25: “The Fight Has Just Begun” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser:...
The Christian Right’s preemptive defense of marriage Episode 12: “Defending Traditional Marriage” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser: Listen to Episodes 0, 1, and 2 here. If you like...
What did George W. Bush’s evangelical base look like in 2004? Episode 10: “Karl Rove’s Christian Right” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser: Listen to Episodes 0, 1,...
Move over Liberty University’s “Standing for Freedom Center” and Donald Trump’s “Center for American Values,” there’s a new kid on the block! Here is the press release: Family Research Council today launched the Center for Biblical Worldview (CBW). The Center for Biblical...
For the record, the following United States Senators objected to the Electoral College vote in Arizona last night: Ted Cruz (R-TX) Josh Hawley (R-MO) Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) Roger Marshall (R-KS) John Kennedy (R-LA) Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) They are all Republicans....
In a previous post on whether Trump should pick the next Supreme Court justice I wrote: Politics is not about integrity, ethics, or standing by one’s word. It is about power. And let’s not pretend that the Democrats wouldn’t do...
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since yesterday’s update? Trump wonder-boy Charlie Kirk, a political pundit and co-founder of the Liberty University Falkirk Center, is upset with the Supreme Court after it ruled Trump could not end the DACA program: Illegals should be...
So what has happened in the country since yesterday’s update? Donald Trump continues to deny systemic racism in the police department and American society generally. At a speech at a Dallas megachurch today he said that there is no real...
I was on Fall Break this weekend and probably spent way too much time reading and watching the news, following the Values Voter Summit, and tweeting. With the exception of the beautiful central Pennsylvania weather, I leave the weekend pretty...
The Trump Administration separated 1000s of immigrant children from their parents. If I am reading this article correctly, the administration does not know where these kids are located. They simply failed to write down where they sent them. It will...
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, the guy famous for saying that he is willing to give Donald Trump a “mulligan” for his adulterous affair with Stormy Daniels, chides his fellow conservative evangelicals in western Pennsylvania for not coming out...
Christianity Today usually tries to stay out of the political fray. Frankly, I was somewhat surprised that they were willing to let me write so freely about Ted Cruz during the 2016 campaign. (The piece actually won an award). I...
Tony Perkins’s recent blog post at the Family Research Council is entitled “On Morals and Mulligans.” Here is a taste: As I said when that footage was released in October to rationalize or excuse this type of behavior. But let’s also be...
One more thought about the Tony Perkins “mulligan.” If the story about Trump and Stormy Daniels is true, and Trump did cheat on his wife, then how can a man like Perkins, a champion of “family values,” EVER give this...
I am not surprised that Family Research Council president Tony Perkins wants to give Trump a “mulligan” on the whole Stormy Daniels affair. Perkins says he will not judge Trump for his apparent adulterous affair with a porn star in...
Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, was not very happy with Paul Rosenberg and Frederick Clarkson’s recent Salon article on Religious Freedom Day. He writes: When Americans celebrate Religious Freedom Day tomorrow, not everyone will be happy...
