Trump Signs Executive Order Creating Religious Liberty Commission
President Donald Trump has appointed evangelical allies and a pair of high-profile Catholic clergy to join other faith leaders on a National Commission on Religious Liberty.
Pave Palestine and Put Up a Parking Lot?
This issue of A Public Witness explores what Trump’s outburst about taking over the Gaza Strip reveals about the oligarchic values of the new administration as well as the immorality of prominent MAGA Christians.
What Would Bonhoeffer Do? Anti-Nazi Pastor’s Legacy Claimed, Debated Across Political Spectrum
He’s been widely quoted — and misquoted. People have claimed Bonhoeffer would support their side on issues ranging from the Vietnam War to post-9/11 militarism to same-sex marriage to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Stop Taking Bonhoeffer’s Name in Vain, His Relatives and Scholars Warn Eric Metaxas, Project 2025
Scholars and family members of the famed theologian worry conservatives will use a new Bonhoeffer movie to promote Christian Nationalism and political violence.
Christian Nationalist Activists Lead Pro-Israel Rally at Columbia University
The rally was a sign of political evangelicalism’s increasing interest in campus politics writ large and the pro-Palestinian campus protests in particular.
Christian Nationalism in the Speaker’s Chair
This issue of A Public Witness introduces you to the 56th speaker of the House — the founding dean of a failed Baptist law school, an attorney for three firms devoted to advancing Christian Nationalism, a crusader for prayer in public schools, an evangelist proclaiming
Campaigning for SBC President on Trumpian Media
In this issue of A Public Witness, we recount the politics animating the SBC, hop on the virtual bus to follow Tom Ascol’s campaign, and then consider what his victory could mean well beyond Southern Baptist life.
They Still Believe the Election Was Stolen
The pro-Trump radio host Eric Metaxas sees similarities between President Joe Biden’s America and Nazi Germany. Read full piece
Prominent Evangelicals are Directing Trump’s Sinking Ship. That Feeds Doubts about Religion.
President Trump’s naked attempt to overturn a fair election — with key elements of Joe Biden’s victory vouchsafed by Republican state officials, Republican-appointed judges and even the Justice Department — has driven some Trump evangelicals to the edge of blasphemous lunacy. Read full piece
Pro-Trump Evangelical Punches Protester & Runs Away
On Thursday, pro-Trump writer and talk radio host Eric Metaxas was among the roughly 1,500 attendees at Trump’s Republican National Convention speech on the White House lawn. Then he punched a protester. Read full piece
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