As Trump launches new presidential bid, will former faith advisers back him?
Washington DC, USRNS When Donald Trump launched his 2020 reelection bid in Orlando, Florida, three years ago, the event was riddled with faith-speak. Both Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly referenced God, arguing the Almighty had blessed America. Trump’s closest evangelical adviser, Florida pastor Paula White-Cain, opened up the event with a passionate invocation in which she insisted […]
Jericho March plans DC return in the new year to pray Pence will overturn election
RNS A die-hard group of Trump supporters hopes 2021 will start with prayer, fasting and perhaps a miracle. Organisers of the Jericho March, slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, have called on “patriots, people of faith and all those who want to take back America” to travel to Washington on those days for a pair of marches to […]
Eric Metaxas, Christian radio host, tells Trump, “Jesus is with us in this fight”
RNS Jesus once told his followers that the greatest love of all is to lay down your life for your friends. Christian radio talk show host and author Eric Metaxas offered to do just that for President Trump during an interview with the president on Monday. “I’d be happy to die in this fight,” Metaxas […]
Essay: On the dangers of mixing faith and partisan politics
Rev TIM COSTELLO looks at how the fear of secularism is driving support for conservative politics in the US – and elsewhere…
THE INTERVIEW: ERIC METAXAS ON TRUMP, BONHOEFFER AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, speaks to best-selling evangelical US author and radio host, Eric Metaxas…
POSTCARDS: IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? METAXAS, FEA OFFER COMPETING VIEWS
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports from the US on two different views on whether America is a Christian nation…
In the US, evangelical leaders proclaim 2017 the ‘Year of Good News’
Two dozen prominent evangelical pastors and denominational leaders are calling Christians to make 2017 the “Year of Good News.” That appeal came in a letter organised by Harvest Crusades founder Greg Laurie and published online on Tuesday. “In a time of bad news, distracting news, divisive news, disorderly news, and, sometimes, depressing news we – as […]