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Robert Jeffress

Court evangelical Robert Jeffress claims he just texted Trump: “There are millions of Christians praying for you right now”

John Fea   |  June 8, 2023

A Southern Baptist once told me that the most dangerous place in the Southern Baptist Convention is between Robert Jeffress and a camera. The pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas does not seem phased by the Trump federal...

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Manhattan jury: Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll

John Fea   |  May 10, 2023

Here is David French: It’s important to note that this was a civil case, not a criminal trial. The burden of proof in civil cases is lower. The jury was charged with determining whether Carroll proved her claims with a...

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Court evangelical Robert Jeffress is “now solidly behind Trump”

John Fea   |  April 21, 2023

The court evangelicals continue to line-up behind Donald Trump. So far Mike Huckabee, Paula White, Eric Metaxas, Lance Wallnau, Marc Burns, and James Dobson have either formal endorsed Trump or suggested they will support him in the 2024 presidential election....

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Donald Trump and Robert Jeffress are back together again in Waco.

John Fea   |  March 25, 2023

Robert Jeffress, the Trump court evangelical who says he is not yet ready to endorse a candidate for president in 2024, sure looked like he was back in the tank for Trump today in Waco. I cannot seem to embed...

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Breaking the “pseudo-revival” of Christian nationalism

John Fea   |  February 13, 2023

This tweet comes from Pentecostal theologian Cheryl Bridges Johns and it speaks volumes. The Christian nationalist revivals that we see. for example. at Robert Jeffress’s First Baptist Church every Fourth of July are full of hubris and the celebration of...

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Robert Jeffress helped stoke the GOP “civil war.” Now he wants no part of it.

John Fea   |  November 23, 2022

Here is Anugrah Kumar’s piece on one of Donald Trump’s most prominent court evangelicals: Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, who was one of the first Evangelical leaders to publicly support former President Donald Trump and attend his rallies during the...

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Are evangelicals really abandoning Trump?

John Fea   |  November 23, 2022

The press seems to love this story. Here is The Huffington Post. Here is The Washington Post. Here is Rolling Stone. But are evangelicals really abandoning Trump? It’s too early to tell. James Robison’s comments at National Association of Christian...

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What are the court evangelicals saying about Trump’s announcement last night?

John Fea   |  November 16, 2022

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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Evangelical leaders on Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard stunt

John Fea   |  October 1, 2022

Peter Smith of the Associated Press reported on this last month. I must have missed his piece. If you are not familiar with my reference to DeSantis’s “Martha’s Vineyard stunt” get up to speed here. Here are some quotes from...

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Black pastor confronts Robert Jeffress on the legacy of racism at First Baptist-Dallas

John Fea   |  September 25, 2022

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,...

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The GOP is trying to defend the most corrupt president in United States history

John Fea   |  June 29, 2022

Historians will have the last say, but in the meantime here is a taste of Jonathan Chait’s recent piece at New York Magazine: At this point, even with the hearings in progress, it seems safe to rate this as the...

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Trump will celebrate Christmas at First Baptist Church-Dallas

John Fea   |  December 15, 2021

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...

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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.

John Fea   |  June 28, 2021

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...

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Joe Biden did not mention God in his National Day of Prayer proclamation. Conservative evangelicals are not happy.

John Fea   |  May 7, 2021

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 —...

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Ah, the memories! Court evangelicals in their natural habitat

John Fea   |  May 4, 2021

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,...

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The Christians & the Vaccine project

John Fea   |  April 24, 2021

Curtis Chang, a theologian at Duke Divinity School and Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary, and Kris Carter, a Christian entrepreneur, are trying to get evangelicals to take the COVID-19 vaccine. They have started the “Christians and the Vaccine Project.”...

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Mike Pence also has a policy organization

John Fea   |  April 15, 2021

Yesterday we called your attention to Donald Trump’s America First Policy Institute. Former court evangelical Paula White will head the “Center for American Values” wing of his new institute. Today I learned about Mike Pence’s “Advancing American Freedom.” Pence’s advisory...

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Eric Metaxas: “Don’t get the vaccine. Pass it on”

John Fea   |  March 30, 2021

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...

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Robert Jeffress introduces Eric Metaxas as the “Francis Schaeffer of our generation”

John Fea   |  March 16, 2021

Eric Metaxas spoke at First Baptist Church on Sunday. Jeffress introduced him as “one of the premiere Christian thinkers of our day” and “the Francis Schaeffer of our generation.” Jeffress has always been prone to hyperbole, but his comments about...

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CPAC 2021 is over. Let’s check-in with the MAGA evangelicals

John Fea   |  March 3, 2021

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...

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