Unfamiliar with the term court evangelical? Read this. It is worth noting that Trump said nothing about evangelicals and very little about the moral issues they deem important during his speech last night. I did not see many court evangelicals...
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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,...
Obama faith adviser Joshua DuBois calls out Trump faith-adviser Johnnie Moore
Joshua DuBois had some strong words for former court evangelical Johnnie Moore. The former Obama spiritual adviser and the author of The President’s Devotional pulled few punches at a recent ZOOM event, accusing Moore of indirectly contributing to the creation...
Is civics education making a comeback?
Here is Joe Heim at The Washington Post: Now, a diverse collection of academics, historians, teachers, school administrators and state education leaders is proposing an overhaul of the way civics and history are taught to American K-12 students. And they’re...
It’s time for another look into what is happening in the world of evangelical Trumpism
It seems like some of the election fraud and insurrection talk has died down a bit. Trump’s evangelicals are starting to settle-in to the reality that Joe Biden is president. This means that they are returning to more traditional talking...
David Barton: If someone calls you a homophobe, just call them “a heterophobe.” (And other news from the world of evangelical Trumpism)
Yesterday the Senate voted 55-45 to move forward with Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. The vote put an end to Kentucky senator Rand Paul’s constitutional objection to the trial. Most GOP senators supported Rand’s motion to kill the trial, but...
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...
Let’s pray that on January 21, 2021 conservative evangelical extremists don’t act on Eric Metaxas’s prayer for martyrdom
This is very disturbing. It comes from a pro-Trump prayer meeting organized by court evangelical Jim Garlow. Thanks to Right Wing Watch for capturing it on video. I am not one to criticize people’s prayers, but what Metaxas does here...
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...
2021: What should we expect on the religion scene?
I recently joined Engy Abdelkader, Jill Jacobs, John Inazu, Johnnie Moore, Gerardo Marti, David Gibson, Andre Henry, Asma Uddin, Robin Fretwell Wilson, and Jonathan Calvillo in thinking about what we can expect on the religious scene in 2021. Thanks to...
Everyone is discovering the court evangelicals!
The conservative pundits are outraged at what happened at Saturday’s Jericho March! David French is worried that too many evangelicals have fallen for conspiracy theories. Rod Dreher says we would be wrong to “blow off” the influence of these evangelicals...
Eric Metaxas and Charlie Kirk talk “voter fraud” (and other court evangelical news)
Over fifteen million cases and 292,000 deaths. COVID-19 continues to rage in the United States. Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to give meaning to the phrase “lame duck president.” He is concentrating on last ditch efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential...
Friday morning court evangelical check-in
Jack Graham sends a subtle pro-Trump message using Psalm 68: And this: Not sure what this means, but I think it has something to do with the election: The part about Biden getting few evangelical votes than Hillary Clinton odes...
The court evangelicals are making their final case for Trump
Robert Jeffress is saying that not voting is a “sin against God.” Does he mean not voting is a sin or not voting for Trump is a sin? I agree with the Falkirk Center and Tucker Carlson: I am still...
Less than a week to go. Let’s check in on the court evangelicals
Trump’s favorite evangelicals are making their closing arguments. Here are some of them: Franklin Graham believes that God works through the United States Supreme Court. It is also worth noting that he is bragging here about attending a super-spreader event:...
How did the court evangelicals respond to last night’s debate?
They loved it, of course. Let’s begin, one more time, with American religious historian Grant Wacker from his biography of Billy Graham: The crucial point is that Graham continued to defend Nixon long after most Americans smelled a rat. When...
When the politics editor of *The Christian Post* refused to let the website become a court evangelical mouthpiece he had no choice but to resign
In December 29, 2019 Napp Nazworth, the politics editor of The Christian Post, resigned after The Post denounced Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editorial calling for the removal of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Now Napp Nazworth is...
Trump is having a rough week. What are the court evangelicals saying?
If you are following the news (or this blog), you know that: Multiple outlets, including Fox News, have confirmed that Trump disparaged American veterans. He called them “losers” and “suckers.” Trump knew about the “deadly” nature of the coronavirus as...
Court evangelicals on night 3 of the GOP convention
Here is what the Bible-believing, born-again Christians who support Donald Trump are saying today: Let’s start with the Liberty University Falkirk Center crowd: Charlie Kirk believes that the Democrat concern over racial unrest and racial justice is politically motivated: Isn’t...