Last Friday, Donald Trump visited Austin, Texas, and promised, “Immediately upon taking office I will launch the largest deportation program in American history.” “January 20 … will be liberation day in America,” he said in front of a background that read…
Of worship warfare, theocracy and a weekend with Sean Feucht
Is the United States on the verge of becoming a theocracy? After covering Sean Feucht’s “Kingdom to the Capitol” event in Raleigh two weeks ago — during which Feucht embraced the term “Christian nationalism” and another pastor admitted, “We deny the right…
Separated, again
Filmmaker Errol Morris is known for his probing documentaries. His breakout film The Thin Blue Line (1988) investigated the framing of an innocent man by a corrupt police force. In 2003, Morris won the Oscar for his film The Fog…
Here’s how things are going on the platform formerly known as Twitter
If you left Twitter when it became X and wonder how things are going in your absence, Mike Cosper might have a word for you today. Cosper is an evangelical Christian who leads media efforts at Christianity Today. He’s a…
Jack Graham prays over Trump at Paula White’s National Faith Summit
Evangelicals supporting Donald Trump gathered at an Atlanta charismatic megachurch Monday afternoon for a National Faith Summit organized by his faith adviser and decades-long friend, Paula White Cain, who lobbed softball questions before an audience she claimed included “thousands of…
From King to Trump
Watching Donald Trump take over the American political church months ago in Iowa on the holiday that celebrates Martin Luther King, it became clear how far the church has fallen from the teachings of Jesus Christ. In King, the American…
Tucker Carlson is a danger to American families
Just when you think the lies and threats from MAGA world can’t get any scarier, Tucker Carlson shows up. The fired Fox News personality spoke at a Trump rally in Georgia Oct. 23 sponsored by Turning Point Action, an evangelicals-for-Trump…
Franklin Graham prays aloud for Trump to win the election
In one of his most explicit endorsements of Donald Trump’s campaign to date, Franklin Graham spoke at a Trump rally in Concord, N.C., Oct. 21 and prayed aloud to God to cause Trump to win the election. The head of…
Trump supporters’ silence about his threat for vengeance
In the 1990s, my friends on the far left were upset that I favored impeaching and convicting President Bill Clinton for lying under oath. When Democrats on social media were lauding Garth Brooks’ singing of “Amazing Grace” at President Joe…
Trump has made 100 threats to prosecute his enemies, and that could include religious foes
Since 2022, Donald Trump has issued more than 100 threats to investigate, prosecute, imprison or otherwise punish his perceived opponents, according to an analysis by National Public Radio released Oct. 22. On the same day, evangelical historian and author Kristin…
Why inerrancy is a threat to democracy
If 200,000 Democrats met at the National Mall three weeks before a presidential election, erected an altar and started smashing it while yelling about the GOP candidate getting thrown from a tower, trampled by horses, eaten by dogs and turned…
Jesus at the MAGA rally
Several weeks ago, I had a strange and troubling dream. In my dream, I attended a massive rally. Thousands of people flocked to the stadium to hear their hero speak. As throngs of people entered the stadium, Jesus quietly entered…