Graham told an abused spouse to go back to her husband. Here is a taste of Sarah Pulliam Bailey’s reporting at The Washington Post; According to the recording, Graham said the marriage could “be fixed easily,” and he seemed to...
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Evangelical leaders “face reckoning over praise for Putin”
Here is Steve Rabey at Religion Unplugged: For most of the past century, America’s conservative Christians and conservative politicians were united in the firm belief that the communist USSR — and later, Russia — was anti-American, anti-God and a threat...
Nyquil is “Baptist wine” and more things I learned from the recent Vanity Fair piece on the Falwells.
Check out Gabriel Sherman’s piece on Jerry Falwell Jr. at Vanity Fair. Here are a few of the new things I learned from it: Falwell Jr. claims that he is not religious: “Subconsciously, yeah, I believe that’s true,” he said,...
Alabama crowd boos Trump for recommending the vaccine
Back in February I live-tweeted Trump’s speech at CPAC: Some of you may recall a post I wrote in March 2021 about pro-Trump evangelical Franklin Graham’s efforts to get his followers vaccinated. It did not go well. Here were some...
Franklin Graham calls for a day of prayer for Afghanistan days after he asks his followers if they “miss President Trump.”
Franklin Graham is calling for a day of prayer for Afghanistan on Sunday, August 22, 2021. Here is his Facebook message to followers: DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN I’m asking for Christians around the world to join...
Franklin Graham: GET THE VACCINE!
Here is Franklin and Wolf Blitzer: Graham says he would be glad to help the Biden administration reach anti-vaxxer evangelicals....
Joe Biden did not mention God in his National Day of Prayer proclamation. Conservative evangelicals are not happy.
Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer. Biden issued a proclamation: Throughout our history, Americans of many religions and belief systems have turned to prayer for strength, hope, and guidance. Prayer has nourished countless souls and powered moral movements —...
Ah, the memories! Court evangelicals in their natural habitat
Jim Garlow, one of the lesser-known court evangelicals, shared this video today at his public Facebook page. The date was May 3, 2017. I see the following court evangelicals schmoozing with their political savior as the band plays “New York,...
Franklin Graham opposes Biden’s infrastructure plan: “I wasn’t aware that America needed rebuilding.”
Here is Graham at his Facebook page: As President Biden was giving his speech last night, I couldn’t help but think that the swamp has won. When President Trump came into office, he said he was going to drain the...
The anti-vaxxer movement does not take its marching orders from Donald Trump
Over at The Week, Ryan Cooper thinks that Trump’s followers will get the COVID-19 vaccine if the former president will just encourage them to do so. Here is a taste of his piece: Dear Mr. Trump, I know it’s been...
Eric Metaxas: “Don’t get the vaccine. Pass it on”
We will see if Metaxas has more to say about this on his radio show It looks like the old court evangelicals are divided over whether to get the vaccine. It appears Metaxas wants to tap into the crowd that...
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...
Franklin Graham tells his followers to get the COVID-19 vaccine
According to a Pew Research study, white evangelicals are the least likely to get the COVID-19 vaccine. There are a lot of reasons for this. As I told Yonat Shimron of Religion News Service earlier this month, there is a...
CPAC 2021 is over. Let’s check-in with the MAGA evangelicals
On Saturday night I published a post on the Trump evangelical response to the former president’s speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. You can read it here. Let’s check-in on them today: The Liberty University Falkirk Center crowd...
Trump’s evangelicals respond to the death of Rush Limbaugh
“There was a generation of Christians who used to listen to Moody or Family Life radio all day, and sometime around 1990 they decided to listen to Rush five times a week instead. And here we are.”–TWOILH reader. Limbaugh seldom...
Trump evangelicals respond to his impeachment acquittal
If Mitch McConnell is right, the Democratic House managers proved that Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors. The former president survived his impeachment trial because forty-three senators, all Republicans, voted to acquit. Several of these senators, including Ted Cruz,...
Trump’s evangelicals have a few things to say about impeachment
This afternoon the House impeachment manager showed these videos: And these: Here are some tweets worth considering: Why doesn’t it surprise me that Fox News cut away from the trial: Some of Trump’s favorite evangelicals are also weighing-in: The response...
Tony Perkins finds “cancel culture” in the Bible (and other Trump evangelical news, including Eric Metaxas’s book launch)
In the last several days we have seen the Republican Party get closer to the breaking point. Trumpism in the form of Marjorie Greene and her enablers is pitted in a war for control of the party against the likes...
On the day of Biden’s inauguration, Trump evangelical John MacArthur tweets that the U.S. is officially “one nation in rebellion to God”
The Biden administration is here. What are the last president’s most loyal evangelicals saying about the inauguration? John MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, fired the first shot: I will just let this one sit for...
The last night of Trump court evangelicalism
Southern Baptist leader Richard Land once boasted that evangelicals had “unprecedented access” to the Donald Trump presidency. I hope he and the rest of the evangelicals enjoyed it. The court evangelicals got their Supreme Court justices and some executive orders...