Southern Baptist leaders and many other evangelical leaders expressed jubilation at Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race, while one podcaster said it’s time to revise the exhibits at the Smithsonian to reflect a different worldview. Josh Daws, a Southern…
GOP officials join ‘Nationwide Prayer Call’ to mobilize evangelical vote
Three congressional Republicans joined activist groups that partner with Focus on the Family for a virtual Sunday evening get-out-the-vote prayer call that urged viewers to usher in a nationwide revival by voting for conservative candidates and issues. “This is not…
Jeffress gets a shoutout from Trump in Arizona
Southern Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress got a shoutout from Donald Trump last week at a rally in Phoenix. Trump was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, who was fired from Fox News for lying but who continues to be an ardent Trump…
What good is a law that’s not enforced?
If your pastor were to stand in the pulpit this Sunday and explicitly tell you to vote for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris for president, would your church be in legal jeopardy? Technically, yes. Realistically, no. The potential peril…
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…
Jack Graham joins evangelical pastors in ‘emergency prayer call’ for Trump before tonight’s debate
After listening to Donald Trump give a speech laced with multiple documentable lies, a group of evangelical leaders joined in an “emergency prayer call” June 26 to ask God’s blessing on Trump in the next night’s presidential debate with Joe…
First we had election deniers; now we have justice deniers
This time, the problem is not with America’s justice system; the problem is with conservative evangelicals’ warped view of what justice means. The folks always screaming about “law and order” don’t really care about law and order when it works…
Not everyone believes there’s a sexual abuse crisis in the SBC
First, Jennifer Lyell had to defend herself against a public misrepresentation of her story of sexual abuse published by Baptist Press; now she’s facing a second public humiliation from critics who believe the Southern Baptist Convention’s sexual abuse investigation is…
In surprise move, Jack Graham endorses Tom Ascol for SBC presidency
In a video released Sunday, June 12, former Southern Baptist Convention President Jack Graham endorsed current presidential candidate Tom Ascol — a move shocking to some convention insiders and a potential game-changer in this week’s contest for leadership. Ascol and…