Ellis was a former fellow at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center (now Standing for Freedom Center). Here is a taste of Libby Cathey’s piece at ABC News: In a memo not made public until now, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark...
Jenna Ellis
New York appellate court suspends Rudy Giuliani’s law license because he lied about election fraud. Will Powell and Ellis be next?
Now it is time for the appropriate courts to go after Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis. Here is The New York Times: A New York appellate court suspended Rudolph W. Giuliani’s law license on Thursday after a disciplinary panel found...
Faith and Freedom Coalition conference continues. Eric Metaxas says that members of the GOP who have not defended the Jan. 6 insurrectionists are “dead” to him.
Yesterday we kept you up to speed on the 2021 Road to Majority conference sponsored by Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition. If you want to get a feel for how Trump’s evangelical supporters are handling his loss and the...
What evangelicals are saying (and not saying) about Liz Cheney’s recent statements about the 2020 election
CNN gets us up to speed: Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, said on Monday her party cannot accept the “poison” of the idea that the 2020 election was stolen and should not “whitewash” the January 6...
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...
MAGA evangelical at CPAC: “Conservatism is about the truth of the Word of God”
What are some of Trump’s favorite evangelicals saying about today’s CPAC speech: Charlie Kirk, the founder of Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, loved it: Actually, I thought the speech was pretty low energy: Actually, he IS the former president, Jenna. He...
Evangelical pastor, author, and theologian Timothy Keller published a tweet on critical race theory. Look what happened:
On Friday, Tim Keller, founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, wrote a post about critical race theory: Critical race theory is not the Gospel, but it can certainly help Christians understand our current moment. It has been useful...
A Sunday morning check-in with the MAGA evangelicals:
Their rage has turned to Biden, Limbaugh haters, Timothy Keller, Twitter, Ted Cruz haters, and those controlling the seven mountains of influence. Here we go: David Brody on Trump’s “traditional biblical values.” Tweets like this explain why so many evangelicals...
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...
The Liberty University Falkirk Center continues to promote evangelical Trumpism:
Yesterday I noted that Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills has emerged as a prominent site for Trump’s evangelical lost cause movement. Today I highlight (once again) the “think tank” associated with this movement: Liberty University’s Falkirk Center. It continues to baffle me...
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,...
What is the Great Commission?
In the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 28, verses 19-20, Jesus gives a final command to his followers: Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy...
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...
The court evangelicals love Martin Luther King Jr. (and other stuff)
Donald Trump is getting out of town on Wednesday morning. The coward is escaping to Mar-a-Lago before Joe Biden is inaugurated the 46th President of the United States at noon. News outlets are reporting that Trump will drop dozens and...
Franklin Graham “shames” the ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump
Evangelicalism is an activist faith. Historically, evangelicals have preached a life-changing gospel. They have done amazing acts of service and justice in the world. We can’t ignore these things. Evangelicals have been a source of good. At the same time,...
Donald Trump just got impeached for the second time. How are the court evangelicals handling it?
The days of the Trump court evangelicals are ending. Right now the big question is whether their king will make it to January 20. The House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump today. Ten members of Trump’s own party voted to...
An insurrection occurred at the U.S. capitol today. What are the court evangelicals saying?
We all know what happened today. I wrote about it earlier tonight in a post titled: “What happened today is a fitting ending to the worst presidential administration in American history.” The court evangelicals, a group of pro-Trump evangelicals who...
A lot happened over Christmas break. How did the court evangelicals respond?
Earlier today, I wrote about some of the highlights of the last ten days. I mentioned the Nashville bombing, Trump’s handling of end of the year legislation, the president’s continued attempts at overturning the 2020 president election, and the support...
The court evangelicals continue to mix biblical faith and Trumpism
So what has happened in the United States since our last court evangelical update? Donald Trump continues to claim he won the 2020 presidential election, refuses to sign Congress’s COVID-19 relief package, and pardoned two murderers and two members of...