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Latest Supporters of Messianic Jews: Duck Dynasty

By Sarah Posner

…to the press. In 2012, the keynote speaker was Glenn Beck, whose pastor in Dallas, Robert Morris of Gateway Church, supports MJBI. MJBI announced the Duck Dynasty appearances in an email today, and its website promotes the evening, called “Inexpressible Joy,” as light-hearted entertainment: Spend a fun filled evening with the Duck Commander himself, Phil Robertson, and other stars from the mega hit show, A&E’s Duck Dynasty. They’ll share heartwarm…

White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth

By Chrissy Stroop

…g Network, for example, Pastor Robert Jeffress of megachurch First Baptist Dallas declared today that “holding up that Bible is a reminder that God’s Word denounces both racism and lawlessness.” This is the same Robert Jeffress whose church choir infamously performed a quasi-hymn unoriginally titled “Make America Great Again” in July 2017, and who, after Trump declared that there were “very fine people” among the white supremacists who descended o…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…for biblical reasons, said Merril Matthews, an evangelical Christian and a Dallas-based health-policy specialist. Mrs. Palin was baptized as a teenager at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church. She frequently attends the Juneau Christian Center, which is also a part of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God. Her home church is the Church of the Rock, an independent congregation. “Historically, the Assemblies of God have been dispensationalists, which mean…

“Lyin’ Ted’s” Non-Endorsement: When Coherence Becomes a Vice

By Neil J. Young

…e officer father for the last time before he was gunned down in the recent Dallas police shooting. The crowd grew quiet listening to the account, appropriately moved. But Cruz quickly pivoted to his smarmy and self-satisfied ways. “What if this right now is our last time? Our last moment to do something for our families, and our country?” Cruz asked. He had just compared a presidential election to a nine-year-old child’s loss of her father. Given…

From “Jane Roe” to “Roe No More”: Norma McCorvey’s Long Strange Trip Through the Politics of Abortion

By Patricia Miller

…“pro-family” politics were on the rise. In 1995, when she was working at a Dallas abortion clinic, McCorvey met and was converted to Christianity by Operation Rescue’s Phillip “Flip” Benham, an evangelical minister, who baptized her in a swimming pool. McCorvey quickly became the poster girl for abortion regret and a national pro-life spokesperson. As Prager reported, in addition to giving McCorvey a kind of moral certitude that she craved, there…

The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…own popular ministers, Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, who has dismissed the president’s sexcapades with a porn star by claiming that “even if it’s true, it doesn’t matter;” he and the rest of the delegates who remain complicit through silence are advancing misogyny. There’s something about serving two masters, where you end up loving one and hating the other. You cannot say you stand against ethnic discrimination while…

Julian Assange Nativity, Castro’s Hanukkah, & a Burger Blessing

By Michael J. Altman

…eaks’ Julian Assange is represented in nativity scenes in Naples, Italy. A Dallas, Texas megachurch pastor is compiling a list of business that fail to recognize Christmas and instead settle for ‘Happy Holidays.’ Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma is taking a stand in the war on Christmas by trying to keep the “Christ” in “Christmas parade.” And the three wise men may have been from China. Always striving to sink to ever lower levels of human decenc…

Perry Endorser: Mormonism is a “Cult” (Updated)

By Sarah Posner

…k Perry was introduced by the Rev. Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church Dallas, who lauded him as “a candidate who is a proven leader, a true conservative, and a committed follower of Christ.” After Perry’s speech, Jeffress spoke with a group of reporters, who questioned him about previous statements he’d made about Mormonism. Jeffess stated, unequivocally, that he believes, as does the Southern Baptist Convention, that Mormonism is a “cult.” H…

South Carolina Fight Club

By Sarah Posner

…and I think America needs that right now.” As Wayne Slater puts it in the Dallas Morning News, the gospel in Gingrich land is “Our mano can beat up your mano.” The religious right hasn’t coalesced comfortably around a presidential candidate since George W. Bush. That’s two election cycles now in which there’s been a mad scramble to endorse anoint a suitable candidate. The majority, but certainly not all, of the religious right leaders endorsed Sa…

I Created the Hashtag #EmptythePews Because It’s Time for Evangelicals To Walk Out of Toxic Churches

By Chrissy Stroop

…s advisory councils, white evangelicals by and large stood by their man. A number of commentators took to Twitter to point out that America’s elite capitalists are showing more of a conscience than prominent conservative Protestants. Former George W. Bush strategist and ABC News political analyst Matthew John Dowd tweeted: Not a single member of Trump’s Evangelical Council has resigned. We have learned corporate America has a greater moral compass…