All posts tagged "Evangelical"

Evangelical Christians are not going to be convinced by the left to reject Donald Trump, but there's still hope it may happen anyway, according to one former pastor.

Nathaniel Manderson, who was educated at a conservative seminary and has been a pastor, a career counselor, and a high school teacher, said in a piece published on Sunday that evangelical Christianity can only be "saved" if it "dumps Trump."

"Liberal mockery will never break the spell. My fellow evangelical believers have to look within themselves," Manderson writes in the Salon article....

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his evangelical compatriots have for years tried to galvanize voters with a narrative of conservative Christians facing constant attack, but that strategy may not be working the way they hoped, argued Ruth Braunstein for Religion News Service on Tuesday.

In her analysis, Braunstein looks at Johnson's work with the Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom and challenges the group's narrative that religious liberty must be protected from a hostile liberal elite, as the New York Times reported in October.

"There is not an open effort to silence and censor the viewpoints of other religions," Braunstein writes. "This ties into a worldview evangelicals have espoused for decades, where they have 'cultivated a myth that Christians are under siege by a hostile secular culture.'"...

After all the hay Republicans made during 2008 of President Barack Obama's former church, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) likely expected this.

Evangelical pastor Rick Warren's plea for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch brought in $2.4 million, Warren announced to cheers during a sermon at the church on Saturday.