Dr. Michael Brown on Evangelicals, Israel & Jewish Believers in Jesus
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All Israel News ^
| June 11, 2024 | J. Micah Hancock
In this exclusive All Israel News interview filmed in Israel, Dr. Michael Brown shares insights on US politics, the Church's response to recent events in Israel, the role of Jewish believers in Jesus, and his message of hope for the future.
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Support for Israel, dispensationalism declines among younger Evangelicals: study
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Christian Post ^
| 05/29/2024 | Jon Brown
The number of young Evangelicals in the United States who support Israel and view it as crucial to the End Times is declining as they increasingly move toward amillennial and postmillennial eschatology, according to a recent study.The Jerusalem Post noted earlier this year that support for Israel among young Evangelicals has cratered
by more than 50% over three years, as laid out in the 2023 book Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century: American Evangelical Opinion on Israel, by Kirill M. Bumin, Ph.D., and Motti Inbari, who serves as professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.'Thinking...
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Russia's War Against Evangelicals
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AOL News ^
| April 2024 | Peter Pomerantsav
"Your church has no right to exist, as it has connections with America and other Western countries," Russian authorities told the deacon of the Pentecostal church in Nova Kakhovka, Oleksandr Prokopchuk. They arrested him and his 19-year-old son. Both
were later found dead in a forest. In occupied Sloviansk four members of the Evangelical Church of the Transformation were accused of being American spies because some U.S. dollars were found in their pockets. They were subsequently shot and killed. Evangelicals are targeted by the Russians disproportionally... Protestants were the victims of 34 percent of the reported persecution events...Baptists made up...
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Cohabitation Among Evangelicals: A New Norm?
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Institute for Family Studies ^
| Apr ‘21 | David J. Ayers
Most of us are used to seeing well-known Evangelicals who live together outside of marriage celebrated in the news media—without any suggestion of a contradiction between their claims to be Bible-believing Christians and their choice to cohabit. Recent
examples include top-rated Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes and A-list Hollywood actor Chris Pratt. Pratt and Mahomes are not anomalies; living together in sexual union outside of marriage is now accepted by most Evangelicals. Among those under 45, most have practiced cohabitation, plan to live together in the future, or are open to the possibility. A Pew Research Center study in...
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Evangelicals list top issues facing the US: survey
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Christian Post ^
| April 23, 2024 | Ryan Foley
A new survey reveals that Evangelicals view immigration, American sovereignty and abortion as the top issues facing the United States heading into the 2024 presidential election. Coral
Ridge Ministries (CRM) released its 2024 Spiritual State of the Nation Survey last week, which is based on 633 responses to a questionnaire sent to “friends and supporters of Coral Ridge Ministries” on an annual basis. “At a time when the views of pro-family evangelicals are sometimes distorted, even caricatured, this survey provides a much-needed window into what Christian conservatives actually believe,” asserted CRM President and CEO Robert Pacienza in a statement. In...
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Russia's War Against Evangelicals
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Time ^
| 4/20/24 | Peter Pomerantsev
After they beat Azat Azatyan so bad blood came out of his ears; after they sent electric shocks up his genitals; after they wacked him with pipes and truncheons, the Russians began to interrogate him about his faith. “When
did you become a Baptist? When did you become an American spy?” Azat tried to explain that in Ukraine there was freedom of religion, you could just choose your faith. But his torturers saw the world the same way as their predecessors at the KGB did: an American church is just a front for the American state. Azat was dragged back...
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Frank Luntz explains to confused CNN host why evangelicals flock to Trump
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American Wire ^
| March 30, 2024 | Vivek Saxena
Pollster Frank Luntz tried on Friday to explain to an oblivious CNN host why Evangelical Christians overwhelmingly support former President Donald Trump. While the reasons should be obvious — Trump helped repeal Roe v. Wade,
staunchly supports religious liberty, and has been an ally to Christians — host Brianna Keilar just couldn’t figure it out. Indeed, in her opinion, Evangelicals should revile Trump because — wait for it — he’s an imperfect human being who’s said and done imperfect things. For example, when asked in 2015 about whether he’d ever asked God for forgiveness, he essentially said no. “I’m not...
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White Evangelicals among the best religious groups at retaining members as 'nones' grow: Public Religion Research Institute study
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Christian Post ^
| 03/29/2024 | Michael Gryboski
Among faith groups in the United States, white Evangelical Christians are one of the best at retaining members even as the share of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated continues to grow, according to a new survey. The
nonprofit research organization Public Religion Research Institute released the report on Wednesday titled "Religious Change in America," which charted several trends among faith groups in the U.S. Data for the report came from a survey PRRI conducted online of 5,627 adults in the U.S. from Nov. 16 to Dec. 7, 2023, with a margin of error of +/- 1.79 percentage points at the...
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MSNBC Accuses Evangelicals Of Wanting To Remove Women From Workplace
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mrc NewsBusters ^
| February 22, 2024 | Alex Christy
The media freakout over the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are people continued on Thursday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, where the MSNBC eponymous host welcomed OBGYN Jennifer Lincoln to label the state “dangerous” and claim Evangelicals are trying to kick women out of the workplace. Mitchell
led Lincoln with two reasons why a woman may seek IVF treatment. The first had to do with the ramifications of certain life choices, “a lot of women are staying in the workplace longer and not having children, delaying marriage until their late 30s or 40s. For them, this can be very, very important,...
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Three Marks of Progressive-Lite Evangelicals
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PatriotandLiberty ^
| 12/23 | Drake Isabell
For all their talk of evenhandedness, winsomeness, and giving others the benefit of the doubt, these ideals are tossed out the window the minute the discussion turns to matters that conservatives deeply care about and are willing to advocate for at the political level. As
Christians, we should call out this double standard for what it is: hypocrisy. The term “white evangelical” has become purely pejorative in both secular and professedly-Christian news outlets. We live in contentious times. With virtually every major event or story comes a flood of news reports from both major news outlets and a seemingly endless...
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Heading into 2024, here are six biblical truths Evangelicals need to embrace when it comes to Israel and the Arab/Muslim world
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All Israel ^
| 12/31/23 | Joel C. Rosenberg
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – What a tragic and painful year 2023 turned out to be for Israelis, Palestinians and much of the Middle East. Many of us hoped Israel and Saudi Arabia would forge an historic and transformative peace and normalization treaty. Instead,
the forces of Iranian-backed evil were unleashed. More Jews were murdered on Oct. 7 than at any other time in the modern era since the Holocaust. And so many Palestinians have died in the ensuing war, as well. I wish I could tell you that 2024 will be better. But few in our neighborhood believe that. I have...
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Trump ripped ‘so-called Christian’ evangelicals as ‘pieces of s–t’: book
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The New York Post ^
| 11/24/2023 | Josh Christenson
Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump railed against “so-called Christians” and “pieces of s—” evangelicals who supported Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the 2016 Iowa caucuses, according to a forthcoming book. At
the time, allies of Cruz had been making hay of Trump’s flub before an audience at Virginia’s Liberty University, a conservative evangelical college, in which he botched a question about his favorite Bible verse and replied that it came from the book of “Two Corinthians,” rather than “Second Corinthians.” “The laughter and ridicule were embarrassing enough for Trump,” Tim Alberta writes in his new book, “The Kingdom, the Power,...
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25 Percent of White Evangelicals in Ohio Voted in Favor of Pro-Abortion Constitutional Amendment
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Disntr ^
| November 8, 2023 | staff
Earlier today, we reported on the sad reality that Ohio had voted to enshrine the right to murder babies into its Constitution, a seismic shift that was partially carried forward by an unlikely contingent—25 percent of white evangelicals according to exit polls conducted by the Washington Post. This alarmingly high minority within
the evangelical community, by their ballot, have signaled a disturbing shift in the moral landscape of the Church. In the face of such a vote, one must question the influence of evangelical leadership. Figureheads like Brent Leatherwood and organizations like the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty...
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Evangelicals Need to Stop Shaming Men: They need to stop delivering hectoring "Man up!" lectures that simply drive men away
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Aaron Ren.com ^
| October 26, 2023 | Aaron M. Ren
Welcome to those of you who just joined after seeing me on Dr. Steve Turley’s show. Thanks
so much for signing up. I cover a lot of topics here but the main focus is the intersection of the future of the evangelical church with men’s issues. I recently wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about why men turn to online influencers instead of traditional authorities. And I just finished a five part series digging a bit deeper into some of the reasons I highlighted. What Jordan Peterson Can Teach Church Leaders (in the Wall Street Journal) By Men...
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Scarborough Sneers: Evangelicals 'On Fainting Couch' Over Bill Clinton's Lewinsky Scandal
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NewsBusters ^
| Mark Finkelstein
Joe Scarborough is so engrossed in attacking Donald Trump that he is even willing to dismiss Bill Clinton's sexual misconduct, and mock those who were offended by it. On
today's Morning Joe, in condemning evangelicals who continue to support Trump despite a federal judge finding a "substantial truth" in the jury's conclusion of a sexual assault, Scarborough said: "My brothers and sisters that I grew up with in the evangelical church . . . are now fiercely fighting for and backing a rapist, according to a judge. Who said by the common definition of the term, Donald Trump raped E....
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Should The US Reauthorize PEPFAR? Ministries benefit financially, but some evangelicals question their two-decade support of the program
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Ministry Watch ^
| August 4, 2023 | Warren Cole Smith
OPINION–In 2003, The United States made a five-year, $15-billion commitment to PEPFAR – the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Fast-forward to 2023, the 20th anniversary of PEPFAR. Total U.S. spending on PEPFAR has exceeded $85-billion. Now
comes the debate about whether PEPFAR should be reauthorized, and that reauthorization has met with some new resistance. Evangelical groups such as the Family Research Council and conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation are opposing reauthorization. Their concerns are many. Among them: PEPFAR funds liberal social causes overseas, such as money for abortion providers. This resistance is a bit of a surprise,...
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Trump screens 'Sound of Freedom,' seeking to rally evangelicals around fear of child trafficking
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ABC News ^
ormer President Donald Trump on Wednesday night hosted a screening of the film "Sound of Freedom" at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, one day after the revelation that special counsel Jack Smith has informed Trump he is a target of the federal investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020
election. Trump has regularly kept up his campaign schedule despite mounting legal problems, including two indictments to which he has pleaded not guilty. He has also denied wrongdoing related to the 2020 election. Wednesday's event has a specific purpose, according to his campaign: to burnish both his record...
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Whoopi Goldberg: Evangelicals Should ‘Wake Up and Realize that God May Not Be on Their Side’
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Breitbart ^
| 06/26/2023 | Pam Key
Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that she hoped evangelicals would “wake up and realize that God may not be on their side the way they think he is” while discussing former President Donald Trump at the recent Faith & Freedom Coalition convention. Co-host
Sunny Hostin said, “What was shocking to me was the hypocrisy of the evangelical community, booing at the truth. I mean, we can all have differences of opinions, but the facts remain the same. And, he did these things, so it’s almost like they were going, ‘la la la la la la...
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No One Participates in Politics More than Atheists,
Even White Evangelicals
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Graphs About Religion ^
| May 16, 2023 | Ryan Burge
The last forty years of politics and religion has been focused squarely on the ascendancy of the Religious Right. I must admit that I’ve probably contributed my fair share to that discourse, as well. A
motley crew of white evangelicals and traditional Catholics locked arms on some social issues, started voting in large numbers for Republican candidates, and changed American politics forever. But I think that era of religion and politics is rapidly coming to a close. The Religious Right is no longer a primarily religious movement - it’s one about cultural conservativism and nearly blind support for the GOP...
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God, I Thank You That I Am Not Like Other White Evangelicals - Op-Ed By David French
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The Babylon Bee ^
| 5-8-2023 | Babylon Bee Staff
Heavenly Father - thank you that I, David French, am so much more righteous than all the other white evangelicals in the world. It
is such a deep privilege, every Lord's Day, to publicly proclaim in the pages of the New York Times how stupid and bigoted white evangelicals are - with one exception (me, David French). What a gift it is to be me. Yes, I thank you Lord! Thank you that I am not like those evil "Christians" who declined the COVID vaccine. From my seat atop this shining hill of righteousness, I can write articles declaring those...
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