How Trump and Harris fared with faith voters in 2024
When Donald Trump won reelection last week, exit polls show he was propelled to victory by gains in a wide swath of demographic groups and buffered, once more, by strong support from Christian voters.. In fact, Trump made gains in nearly every category of self-identified Christians running against Kamala Harris compared to his run in 2020 against Joe Biden.
Understanding the David Platt story – Baptist News Global
Oct 28, 2024 · The chairman of trustees — and chairman of the presidential search committee — at the IMB when Platt was elected was David Uth, pastor at First Baptist Orlando, Fla. Uth’s second in command at First Baptist Orlando was Danny De Armas, who simultaneously chaired the trustee board at the SBC North American Mission Board.
Franklin Graham prays aloud for Trump to win the election
In one of his most explicit endorsements of Donald Trump’s campaign to date, Franklin Graham spoke at a Trump rally in Concord, N.C., Oct. 21 and prayed aloud to God to cause Trump to win the election.. The head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse said he appeared at the rally as “a private citizen and as a preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
More evangelical leaders on board Trump train for 2024
Jan 24, 2024 · Ben Carson, the doctor and author who served in Trump’s cabinet as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has been campaigning for Trump and is rumored to be up for a position in the next Trump administration should there be one.. Trump “has just been a friend of religion and of faith,” said Carson, one of the few former Trump cabinet members to back the former president, while 17 ...
Matthew Taylor’s new book explores how ‘the fringe became the …
Matthew Taylor’s timely and disturbing new book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy, explores the politicization of America’s independent charismatics and neo-Pentecostals and the resulting “charismaticization of right-wing politics.” Taylor bids farewell to one generation of Religious Right …
Skillet's John Cooper wants a revolution – Baptist News Global
In an era marked by cultural upheaval and deepening societal divides, John Cooper, the charismatic frontman of the Christian rock band Skillet, is making waves far beyond the music scene. With the release of Skillet’s new album, Revolution, Cooper is positioning himself and his band at the forefront of what he sees as a crucial spiritual battle for the soul of America.
I asked people why they’re leaving Christianity, and here’s what I ...
Dec 13, 2022 · For some time now, Christianity has been on the decline. According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020.. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this. As of Dec. 6, 2020, the hashtag “#exchristian” had 696.7 million cumulative views on TikTok and was assigned to more than 68,600 ...
John MacArthur is wrong about so much more than keeping …
Feb 14, 2023 · Mark Wingfield serves as executive director and publisher of Baptist News Global. He is the author of the new bookHonestly: Telling the Truth About the Bible and Ourselves.. Related articles: Why Women Talking has women talking and complementarian men fuming | Analysis by Rick Pidcock. Why evangelicals may be fearful of distancing themselves from John MacArthur | Opinion by Maina Mwaura
Faithful Politics examines 10 ways Christians do politics
Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon hailed the separatist model in 1989’s Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, and this approach is carried on today by the Amish, the Bruderhof, Orthodox writer Rod Dreher, and Shane Claiborne’s Simple Way community in Philadelphia. “Keep the country out of the kingdom.” These separatists, many of …
Crash-course in Bible history: How the Bible came to be
Feb 14, 2023 · It is possible that Hebrew literature existed in some form well before 700 BCE, but we do not have those physical documents. The earliest copies of parts of the Hebrew Bible are from the Dead Sea Scrolls, a set of texts found in the Qumran caves and that include both biblical and non-biblical manuscripts.These can be dated between the third and first centuries BCE.