In my childhood, there were moments when Mama would say, “I’ve had about all I’m going to take of you, young man.” I mention Mama because Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas needs Mama’s admonition. Jeffress has this haughty habit…
How Ed Sheeran’s tour became a political circus
Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, banned Macklemore from opening Ed Sheeran’s show at Gillette Stadium. The tour promoter banned Macklemore from other shows on the tour, and now all the opening acts have quit in…
Jeffress is selling evangelical fear
When Robert Jeffress spoke at the GOP Midterm Convention in Dallas Sept. 10, he was selling old evangelical fear. He attacked James Talarico, the Texas Democratic nominee for U.S. senator, as “blasphemous” and “evil.” He declared Talarico’s beliefs “not beliefs…
There’s no history like fake MAGA history
Nothing can surpass the certainty of American conservatives, even when they’re wrong. Right-wing blogger Matt Walsh is the latest to prove this. He has produced a seven-part series on Watergate in which he claims the history of Watergate has been…
MAGA has meltdown over Ossoff mentioning Natalie Harp
At a Sunday rally in Atlanta, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., delivered an attack on President Donald Trump and Republican challenger Mike Collins. He framed this year’s Georgia Senate race as a referendum on the Trump administration’s record. Ordinary political discourse….
The danger of calling Democrats communists and Republicans patriots
As if we were all in the evangelical equivalent of the film Groundhog Day, America awakens in the Garden of Eden every morning. There’s always a talking snake offering us poisonous fruit. And our current snake — President Donald Trump…
Where did the evangelism of evangelicals go?
The evangelical embrace of secular politics has changed what counts as evangelism. The cultural wars, with their anger, outrage and hyperbole, have proved intoxicating to the previous heralds of the good news of Jesus. Evangelism has been watered down to…
Anthony Fauci is MAGA’s devil du jour
Republican attempts to interrogate and denigrate Anthony Fauci are but the latest attempt to identify a devil other than the one they’ve taken up residence with. This week, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and other Republicans subpoenaed the former head of…
Mark Driscoll is a fool who needs to read church history — and the Bible
Mark Driscoll says you can’t be a “Bible-believing Christian and a socialist.” He also declares, “I am a capitalist becase I am a Christian.” He clearly doesn’t know church history and hasn’t absorbed the book of Acts. According to Encyclopedia…
The arrogance of Jeffress’ claims about James Talarico
Robert Jeffress says James Talarico “twists Scripture.” The problem here is not Talarico but Jeffress. Of the U.S. Senate candidate from Texas, he said: “He is pleasant in his demeanor; he appears to know the Scripture. Even though he twists…
Eric Metaxas is wrong about American history — again
Eric Metaxas has a new book, Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World. He is not a historian, and while there have been any number of good books written by non-historians, Revolution is not…
Pope Leo’s ‘evangelical’ encyclical
I read Pope Leo’s papal encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person In the Time of Artificial Intelligence.” Imagine my surprise in finding an “evangelical” Catholic diametrically opposite American MAGA evangelicals. What captured my attention was the first third…