Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Frank Amedia, Donald Trump's Christian policy liaison, at a crusade (image from Amedia's Facebook)
As we know by now, the Donald Trump administration has ramped its war on the media into Defcon 1. But one collection of Trump's most ardent supporters has had it at that level for some...
Roland Martin with Hank Aaron (image courtesy Martin's Facebook)
For some time, the religious right has been mounting a ham-handed bullying campaign to warn white evangelicals against joining the resistance to Donald Trump. Their explanation? Those who oppose Trump are supposedly being driven by...
Paula White praying over one of her flock at her church (image courtesy White's Facebook)
As of Monday afternoon, Donald Trump's average approval rating, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight, is 37.2 percent--easily the lowest on record for a newly-elected president at this stage in his presidency. But as bad as these...
Our scripture this morning for church was from Genesis 45, where we read about Joseph's reaction toward his brothers when they approached him in Egypt to ask for food. It is important to remember that these...
Frank Amedia, Donald Trump's Christian policy liaison, at a crusade (image from Amedia's Facebook)
A number of my fellow left-leaning charismatic and pentecostal friends suspect that Donald Trump is being used by God--just not in the way that the religious right would have us believe. They think he's being...
Romans 14:19       So let’s strive for the things that bring peace and the things that build each other up. As I sit here in my safe home far away in Arkansas, and I watch...
Kevin Swanson (image courtesy Generations)
The religious right would like us to believe that all it wants is to give Americans with "traditional values" a place at the table. But occasionally, when prominent fundies think no one else is listening,...
Lance Wallnau at Convergence 2016 (image from Wallnau's Facebook)
It's been amply established that diehard supporters of Donald Trump live in an alternative universe. In this world, even when there is no doubt something happened, there is still room for doubt about whether the event...
Jim Bakker on his set (image from Bakker's Facebook)
As we all know, Donald Trump's upset victory wouldn't have happened without him going into a massive political debt to the religious right. Most of what passes for leadership among social conservatives stood by the...
Rick Joyner behind the pulpit (image from Joyner's Facebook)
No matter how he tries to convince himself--and us--Donald Trump is not winning. Not by a longshot. As of Friday night, FiveThirtyEight pegs his average approval rating at 36.9 percent, the lowest on record for...
Janet Mefferd (image from Mefferd's Website)
In the wake of Donald Trump's bizarre and unhinged speech to the 2017 Boy Scout Jamboree, a number of observers have drawn sharp contrasts with Barack Obama's scouting history. While Trump never spent a day...
Lance Wallnau at Convergence 2016 (image from Wallnau's Facebook)
Earlier this week, Public Policy Polling released a new national poll that revealed the stark gulf between diehard supporters of Donald Trump and the country at large. For instance, only 45 percent of Trump voters...
Steve Turley giving a lecture (image courtesy Turley's Facebook)
As of Thursday night, Donald Trump's approval rating stands at 39.3 percent. As anemic as that looks, it would be even worse if not for the support of the religious right. At last report, well...
A Pentecostal/charismatic worship service (image courtesy Rayttc, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
As of Monday night, Donald Trump's average approval rating, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight, stands at 39.1 percent. That's the second-worst average on record for any president at this early point in his administration, and the worst for any...
Rick Wiles of TruNews (image courtesy Wiles' Twitter)
In case you missed it, the only reason Donald Trump's head is still above water is that over 70 percent of white evangelicals still back him, even in the face of the nearly daily outrages...
Jesse Lee Peterson (image courtesy BOND's Facebook)
On Wednesday morning, the Democratic Congressional baseball team had just arrived at Galludet University in Washington to practice for the following night's Congressional Baseball Game when word got out that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise had been...
Rick Wiles of TruNews (image courtesy Wiles' Twitter)
When word got out that a hardcore Bernie Sanders supporter turned a Republican baseball team practice in Alexandria, Virginia into a shooting gallery, a number of Republicans wasted no time pointing fingers. Newt Gingrich blamed potty-mouthed...
"Coach" Dave Daubenmire (image from Daubenmire's Facebook)
When you listen to religious right radio shows and podcasts, you expect to hear outrageous and jaw-dropping commentary. But what Dave Daubenmire did on his daily podcast, "Pass the Salt," is staggering even by those...
March in Arkansas can go either way: still below freezing and snowing, or already 80 degrees and humid. Driving down the two lane highway on the edge of the Ouachita Forest that March day was...
"Coach" Dave Daubenmire (image from Daubenmire's Facebook)
A number of Republicans, especially those aligned with the religious right, held their noses and voted for Donald Trump, despite his many outrages, for only one reason--a chance to maintain the conservative majority on the...