The Kings College is in serious financial trouble. Back in 2008,, when I was blogging at Paul Harvey’s Religion in American History, I wrote a piece on what I called “Manhattan Evangelicalism.” The Kings College featured prominently in that post....
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Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly says Trump “is the most flawed person” he’s ever met
Here is Jake Tapper at CNN: Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, has told friends that President Donald Trump “is the most flawed person” he’s ever known.” The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to […]
The Complicit Court Evangelicals
I just finished “Collaborators,” Anne Applebaum‘s brilliant essay in the July/August 2020 issue of The Atlantic. It is subtitled: “What causes people to abandon their principles in support of a corrupt regime? And how do they find their way back?” Applebaum...
Why an evangelical college president quit after Trump got elected
This is an amazing Warren Throckmorton interview with Greg Thornbury, former president of The Kings College. He talks about his nervous breakdown, why he quit, and when he realized he would never be an “evangelical leader.” The stuff on Eric...
What It’s Like to Talk With Pro-Trump Evangelical Family Members
Check out Alex Morris’s Rolling Stone essay “False Idol–Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump.” Morris talked to a lot of the right people, including commentators Greg Thornbury, Randall Balmer, Peter Montgomery, Charles Marsh, and Diana Butler Bass and court evangelicals Robert...
Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-x_WyBjO6Y&w=560&h=315] Do you want to know what evangelicalism was like before the Christian Right came along and politicized it? Check out Greg Thornbury‘s piece at The Washington Post: “What evangelicals looked like before they entered the political fray.” Thornbury has just...