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.
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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
Trump’s new ICE policy attacks the church - Baptist News Global
Last week, the incoming Trump administration announced it will rescind a 2011 ICE policy that keeps government officials from entering sensitive locations such as schools, churches and hospitals to carry out immigration raids and deportations. The mere thought of this change should be concerning for Americans who care about basic decency and human rights.
AND Christians – Baptist News Global
Disciples of Jesus who can remain centered in Christ, internally at peace, regardless of the chaos and brokenness around them AND disciples of Jesus who join God’s mission to renew, reconcile, redeem and restore God’s good creation (including humankind, of course).. Here’s what I mean. Experiencing and maintaining the joy-peace-shalom of Christ in us during extreme circumstances is ...
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 ...
Two young leaders exemplify the alarm over Trump
Nov 8, 2024 · Donald Trump’s return to the White House is “the absolute worst case scenario,” according to religion scholar Matthew Taylor. “We’re in an epochal shift in American history of the worst sort, and while it does not spell the absolute end of American liberal democracy, MAGA is a fatal illness,” Taylor wrote on X after the Tuesday election. ...
Looking for a religious exemption to a COVID vaccine mandate?
Sep 16, 2021 · Unless you’re a member of a Dutch Reformed church or a Christian Science church, making a claim for a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine as a Christian is going to be hard to prove.. According to research by Vanderbilt University, the Dutch Reformed, the Christian Scientists and a few lesser-known faith-healing groups are the only churches operating in the United States that have ...
I kissed John MacArthur goodbye – Baptist News Global
The reality of dysfunctional leadership is not something unique to the business world, and unfortunately American evangelicalism is replete with churches and organizations with dysfunctional leaders who are causing great harm to their followers.
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.