Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
This coming Saturday, March 25th—one week after a hysterical all-caps social media post in which…
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Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream
It starts with a tweet: It's time for Christians in every country to come to…
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Russia and the US Have More in Common Than You Might Think
As I write, Russia has invaded Ukraine, thousands of people have reportedly died, and hundreds…
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Not Peace, But Division? Evangelical Vaccine Refusers Divide Families
A friend of mine was raised in a family that was quirky, sarcastic, into alternative…
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Billy Graham, Most Famous Religious Figure of 20th C, Dies at 99
Billy Graham, by any measure the most famous religious figure of the twentieth century, died today [at his home in Montreat, North Carolina]. He was ninety-nine years old.
In a career that extended well over half a century, Graham took a simple evangelical message – give your heart…
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Pence Meets With One of Putin’s Top Clerics: Strange Bedfellows at BGEA’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians
Yesterday, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence made headlines for his appearance at the Billy Graham Evangelistic…
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Why So Many American Christians Don’t Understand Protest
We would do well to remember that our good news first came as an act of divine protest in the body of a poor, brown baby born in a barn.
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A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump
Trump is not a Christian warrior; he is, however, a warrior for Christ.
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Repent, Hillary: Trump’s Evangelical Backers Play the Sin Card
In the Atlantic this morning, Jonathan Merritt writes a bemused narrative of this week’s evangelical about-face as,…
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When Muhammad Ali Met Billy Graham
How far we’ve come.
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