Evangelicals

Billy Graham’s Granddaughter Slams ‘Hypocritical’ Evangelicals, Franklin Graham for Praising Trump

Do Evangelicals Need a Better Gospel?

“The entire time, all the girls are lying?” the man shouted, right before he was escorted out of the event. “Why would they lie?” ….Pastor: “I would remind everyone,” he sniffed, “that this is a worship service.” One could laugh, or cry, or marvel at how much this strange episode eerily resembles a cut-rate, mawkish cable-TV stereotype of a benighted Southern church.

“Those who disagreed with their clergy about Trump were the ones who changed congregations” Washington Post

“The Persian king might have been a pagan, but he still served God’s plans. For some Christians, Donald Trump does just that” The Guardian

“The sanctity of human life, the Constitutional guarantees of religious liberty that are being shredded, and the promise by Mr. Trump to appoint pro-life Justices to the Supreme Court” CPost

“It turns out that the conservative base is not quite as conservative as we thought, and the Evangelical base isn’t as evangelical as we hoped… . They occupy the same moral terrain as Bill Clinton’s most stalwart defenders in the 1990s, revealing themselves as more concerned with power and access than with character and principle.” David French

“[W]hite evangelicals are by far the category least involved in political activism in comparison with Catholics, black Protestants, moderate and liberal “mainline” Protestants and non-Christian groups.” GetReligion

“Rick Warren … Russell Moore…will meet Pope Francis and offer an ‘evangelical Protestant’ perspective as part of a Vatican colloquium on marriage and family held this November 17-19.” CT