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Eric Metaxas has run into some opposition to his efforts to make God into a vote monitor. Last Wednesday he posted an op-ed in the WSJ which brought God to his side. Then this week, he has been tweeting up a storm about it (He deleted the first one sometime…
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Yesterday, Eric Metaxas referred his dwindling Twitter followers to read an article comparing Donald Trump with Samson. Roughly, the narrative casts imperfect Trump as a modern day imperfect Samson from the Old Testament. According to the article, we should accept Trump as an imperfect man God can use in the…
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Election season just makes everybody a little silly. Like this: What does Trump have to do with Samson? It goes way past the hair issue… https://t.co/dk1gg7Li6W — Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) October 16, 2016 Metaxas linked to an article that makes a case Trump is like Samson. He doesn’t drink wine,…
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Yesterday, Wilberforce and Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas closed his Wall Street Journal op-ed supporting Donald Trump with this paragraph: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not…
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I just came across this open letter written to be signed by Liberty University students. This comes pretty close to a vote of non-confidence in Jerry Falwell, Jr. Liberty United Against Trump In the months since Jerry Falwell Jr. endorsed him, Donald Trump has been inexorably associated with Liberty University.…
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In a Wall Street Journal op-ed out today, Eric Metaxas continues to confuse his audience by his support for Donald Trump. His op-ed reminded me of this observation by Mark Noll: The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind. As a serious defense…
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This is a bold move and one I admire. In an editorial just out, World magazine’s editor Marvin Olasky called on Donald Trump to withdraw from the campaign. Calling Trump “unfit for power,” Olasky said, “Our journalistic task is to call powerful people to account, regardless of their party, regardless of the…
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The national Christian radio station is droning through their Fall pledge drive right now and the begging is fierce. Just today a DJ was heard imploring drivers to pull over and pledge to keep K-LOVE on the air. That was a new one on me. The DJ actually wanted people…
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Over a month ago, religious right luminary and self-styled historian David Barton bragged for one day in a video that he had an “earned doctorate.” Although he hid the diploma on the video, the doctorate appeared to come from Life Christian University, a school in FL which gives degrees in consideration…
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The fall out continues from the audio of Donald Trump claiming to use his celebrity status to assault women. While some evangelical Trump supporters have remained on the Trump train, at least two prominent ones have jumped off. At least one prominent Trump supporting evangelical has stayed quiet. UPDATE: Christianity…
