Tag: Evangelical

Bubba Copeland, the mayor of the tiny town of Smiths Station, Alabama, also a grocery store owner and Baptist pastor, had an online alter-ego. He was ‘Brittini Blaire Summerlin’, the self-described “transgender curvy girl.” It was a poorly kept secret. A young Evangelical ...

“Tim Mackie (of the Bible Project) was my Old Testament Professor at Western Seminary in Oregon in 2017. After I took that class, I was seriously concerned about his theology. He is a liberal theologian at best and a wolf at worst.” A ‘wolf’ is a Satanic figure. As faction...

She was long at Liberty University, then shifted to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She was an unexpected figure, a sort of paradox in America’s largest religion. Weirdly colorful. Intellectual. A bit eccentric. She was the Evangelical Auntie Mame, given to strange declarations. ...

I joined the SaveOne anti-abortion support group first. Really, I was a liar from the beginning. I’ve never had an abortion, at least not that I remember. At the time, I said I remembered becoming pregnant in high school after my father raped me, and that much is true. What I don’t re...

Early on, he set about trying to teach the Bible to a community he knew: young skateboarders. He went to an Evangelical seminary, and became a pastor. But then he made the unusual decision to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he got a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies....

I’m tired of hearing of all of these proposed bills about morality. The Moral Minority seriously needs to get a hobby. It’s getting more and more ridiculous, the things we’re reading about in the news these days. Mind your own damn business, already. If people want to spend thei...

Prior worked the last two decades at very conservative schools. She was long at Liberty University, then shifted to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She was an unexpected figure, a sort of paradox in America’s largest religion. Weirdly colorful. Intellectual. A bit eccentric. S...

I consider myself an Evangelical Christian in theology for the most part. But, the new trend among Evangelical Christians in which patriotism and an America-first attitude outweigh Jesus’ teachings, is not something I can accept. It seems to me this Patriotic Gospel is gaining more momentum...

I think back on the many Evangelical stars who’ve come from DTS—from Charles Swindoll to Charles Ryrie, from J. Dwight Pentecost to Hal Lindsey, or J. Vernon McGee. They’d attended a white supremacist school and said nothing about it. In 1973, Dallas Theological Seminary...

The book was a prosecution for fraud. On point after point, Canfield’s biography of a Christian hero read like a legal indictment. Scofield had been accused of bribery and theft when holding public positions. He’d lied about being in the Confederate Army. There was suggestion he&rsquo...

This article is not meant to lend any legitimacy to the Ku Klux Klan. Few organizations are as universally recognized and abhorred. Known colloquially as ‘the Klan’ or ‘the KKK’, the original cell was formed in Tennessee around 1865 as a response to the American Civ...

Many American Christians, especially the Evangelicals, believe that the United States is a Christian nation, built on Christian values. This belief motivates them to push for laws and actions that support Christianity in public areas. For example, they often support the idea of putting the Ten Comma...