In this video, Fox & Friends interviews pro-Trump pastor Robert Jeffress at 5:41 AM. It’s dark, there is a pickleball referee on site, and there are cheerleaders. I also learned that First Baptist Church is known locally as the “Baptist […]
First Baptist Church--Dallas
Robert Jeffress has a Trump “shrine” in his office at First Baptist Church-Dallas.
I am finishing-up Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism in preparation for a conversation I will be taping with him tomorrow on CSPAN’s Book TV. I am sure I […]
Black pastor confronts Robert Jeffress on the legacy of racism at First Baptist-Dallas
Robert Jeffress, the Trump-loving pastor of Dallas’s First Baptist Church, should get credit for showing-up at this event. It’s a step in the right direction. Here is Matt Goodman at Dallas Magazine: Monday evening at SMU’s Dallas Hall, Dr. Michael Waters, […]
Trump will celebrate Christmas at First Baptist Church-Dallas
And I am sure he will get a warm welcome from court evangelical Robert Jeffress. Here is the Dallas Morning News: Former President Donald Trump returns to friendly Texas turf Sunday in Dallas at the American Airlines Center to talk […]
Anyone who wants to believe that Independence Day is a Christian holiday should read Frederick Douglass’s “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?” David Barton speaks at First Baptist-Dallas.
Yesterday was “Freedom Sunday” at First Baptist-Dallas. I have commented on this yearly service several times. Read my commentary here and here and here. My position on these patriotic services has not changed. In the past, First Baptist-Dallas pastor Robert […]