I was raised in evangelical Christianity. My grandfather was an evangelist in the 1950s. My mom was the church pianist. I grew up in Sunday school and youth group, the kind designed to keep kids like me out of trouble….
Are white evangelicals really that ignorant?
Perhaps the oddest defense of white evangelicalism in recent weeks has been to acknowledge much of the harm they’ve caused while claiming it’s not due to their theology, but due to their ignorance. During this second Trump administration, patriarchal Christianity…
What’s so upsetting to evangelicals about Kristin Du Mez?
“Do you know where we are?” I asked my 16-year-old son as we turned onto the main road that goes near my parents’ house. “No,” he replied. “My awareness of the city is like disconnected bubbles. Gramma’s neighborhood is one…
Russell Moore tells evangelicals their immigrant jokes aren’t funny
Russell Moore is at it again — this time calling fellow evangelicals to account for their gallows humor about immigrants. In his latest Christianity Today newsletter, the former Southern Baptist ethics leader chides evangelicals for excusing their inhumanity toward immigrants…
I used to think relativism was the problem
I once loved attending apologetics seminars and cheered wildly when Christian apologists won debates with skeptics, proving that objective truth and the proclaimed good guys still triumphed. I felt affirmed to be on the right side of moral clarity, where…
Jesus is not our political mascot
When you have a few years on you, as I do, you start running into reruns, reboots and reiterations. How many Spider-Man movie reboots have there been since the 1970s? How many versions of Pride and Prejudice? How many efforts…
Atheism, nationalism and the conductor of the crazy train
About a year or so ago, actor Rainn Wilson posted on social media, “The metamorphosis of Jesus Christ from a humble servant of the abject poor to a symbol that stands for gun rights, prosperity theology, anti-science, limited government (that…
Don’t be surprised white evangelicals still support Jesse Watters
Given that white evangelicals have spent the last decade largely ignoring the sexual abuse being perpetrated by their pastors and politicians and even calling such allegations a hoax, it’s no wonder they’d celebrate sexually abusive pundits as well. According to…
Book says ‘special relationship with Israel’ is bad deal for US
The timing may be right for a fresh look at the longstanding “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel, the largest recipient of U.S. aid since the 1970s. “Americans have increasingly negative views of Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin…
White evangelicals now regret the deal they made with the devil: report
Although U.S. President Donald Trump continues to suffer from weak approval ratings in poll after poll, one group that, on the whole, still holds him in high regard is white evangelical Christian fundamentalists — who view him as a staunch defender of…
Which side will you choose?
The Christian faith battle between the Right and the Left is on full display in this year’s election cycle. In Texas, James Talerico has made claims that his drive into the public square comes from his Christian faith. This motivation is…
The transmogrification of the SBC: When Baptists no longer are Baptist
As the Southern Baptist Convention in its recent annual meeting has proved itself unreliably Baptist, it gives me pause to think about how quickly the transmogrification of this Baptist denomination into its ecclesiastical opposite has happened. Baptist folk often have…