Wednesday morning on the Tennessee Star Report, host Michael Patrick Leahy welcomed Conservative Journalist and Author Andy Ngo on the newsmakers line to discuss his disinvitation from the upcoming Culture Summit Christian conference in Nashville and the trending critical race theory in the evangelical community.
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President Trump Announces Protections for the Right to Prayer in School
President Trump recently declared his intentions to “safeguard” the right to pray in schools, as he ramps up efforts to energize the Evangelical vote ahead of the 2020 election, according to USA Today.
Read MorePoll Finds 67 Percent of White Evangelicals Stand Firmly Against Abortion
A majority of white evangelicals strongly supports restrictions on abortion, a national poll released Thursday shows.
Read MoreTrump Campaign Launching ‘Evangelicals for Trump’ at Majority-Hispanic Megachurch
The Trump campaign announced Friday that it will be launching “Evangelicals for Trump” at a Hispanic megachurch Jan. 3.
Read MoreCarol Swain Commentary: Mark Galli’s Unchristian Attack on President Trump from an Evangelical Perspective
I first learned about Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editorial “Trump Should Be Removed from Office” from a text message sent by a former student of mine I’ll call Jared, a native New Yorker. He asked, What do you think of this article?
Read MoreRep. Steve Cohen Calls Evangelicals Who Support President Trump ‘Deluded’
U.S. Rep. Steven Cohen, a Democrat representing Tennessee’s Ninth Congressional District, said demeaning things about evangelicals who voted for U.S. Republican President Donald Trump.
Read More‘She Hates Me:’ WaPo Reveals Why Evangelicals Jumped Aboard The Trump Train
by Chris White The Washington Post asked locals at a southern Baptist church in Alabama why they voted for President Donald Trump despite that the former reality TV star’s conduct. Their answer was short and to the point. Members of the First Baptist church of Luverne, Alabama say former…
Read More‘Trumpvangelicals’ Are Number One of 10 Most Important Faith Stories of 2017
For the second year in a row, President Donald Trump and his conservative evangelical supporters topped the list of the 10 most important religion news stories of the year as compiled by the country’s largest organization of religion journalists. These so-called Trumpvangelicals are enjoying unprecedented access to the Oval Office…
Read MoreFormer Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue Among Evangelicals In Trump Administration
President Trump swept into office with a broad base of evangelical support and he has made sure that evangelicals find positions in his administration. Among them is former Republican governor of Georgia Sonny Perdue, who was sworn in as secretary of agriculture on Tuesday. A veterinarian by training, Perdue…
Read MoreLifeWay Research: More Than Half of Americans Have Read Little or None of the Bible
Many Americans say they own a Bible and have a positive view of it, but not many make a habit of reading it, a new LifeWay Research study has found. Church leaders have become increasingly worried about biblical literacy and the results show why. “Most Americans don’t know first-hand the overall…
Read MoreSome Evangelicals Object to Refugee Restrictions
A group of 100 evangelical leaders and pastors published a full-page ad in The Washington Post on Wednesday objecting to President Trump’s executive order on refugees. The ad featured an open letter to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence and criticized the moratorium placed on the national refugee program and…
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