Tag: Evangelicalism After Trump
#NeverTrump and President Trump
This will be the note I sign out on this year. I’ll be off the next seven weeks but we’ll continue to publish other authors during that time. In the build-up to the 2016 election, American evangelicals were a pessimistic...
7 Theses on Evangelicalism After Donald Trump and 2016
In the aftermath of the many scandals of the past week and a half, which began with the Trump tapes, and the consequent loss of endorsements for Trump (and the increasingly appalling support for the man), now is a good...
An Addendum on Evangelicals Endorsing Trump
We really do have plans to turn our attention toward other issues beyond electoral politics next week. (I’ve got submitted pitches I’m currently reviewing on immigration, a general consideration of the cultural norms that create something like the Trump phenomenon, a...
Soma and the Silencing of Evangelicalism After Trump
In his novel Silence Japanese writer Shusaku Endo tells the story of two Portuguese missionaries in 17th century Japan. After initial pioneering work by Francis Xavier in the 16th century, a small native Japanese church had begun to flourish in the...
Idylls of the Right
This guest post is by Matthew Mellema. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The rise of Donald Trump has me...
Evangelicalism After Trump: The religious left isn’t a solution.
Ruth Graham’s latest in Slate is, to the surprise of no one who reads her regularly, a well-done, interesting take on the future of American Christianity. You should read the whole thing, but the excerpts below gets at the key...
Evangelicalism After Trump: Revisiting Economics
The next post in our series comes from my friend Dr. Brad Littlejohn. My esteemed predecessors in this series have offered bracing words of optimism in the face of Trump’s hostile takeover of the GOP. This manifestation of divine judgment...
Evangelicalism After Trump: Evangelicals should stay in the GOP.
The third post in the series comes from my friend Stephen Wolfe. Steven Wedgeworth has written a stirring piece declaring that now is the time for Christians to finally escape from the Republican Party. That I was supposed to desire...
Evangelicalism After Trump: Now is the time to escape from the GOP.
The second post in the Evangelicalism After Trump series comes from my friend Steven Wedgeworth. When I awoke Wednesday morning in Central Florida the sky was still dark and intermittent explosions of electricity filled the sky. Thunder boomed, as the...
Evangelicalism After Trump: The Moral Bankruptcy of the GOP
I am putting together a series of posts about evangelicalism after Trump with a particular focus on our political future after the nomination of Donald Trump by the Republican party. This first post in the series is from Mere O...