Evangelicals: Losing Faith to Gain Power

Evangelicals: Losing Faith to Gain Power

Evangelicals have been drifting away from addressing critical matters using divine thoughts for decades. Increasingly, they have created a cognitive framework built more on attaining political power than on a theological conscience rooted in divine love, grace and...

As Network Turns 50, Robertson Bows Out of Politics

(RNS) Marking the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of his Christian Broadcasting Network, Pat Robertson said he will no longer make political endorsements. “When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grassroots support for...

Assigning Blame When Disasters Strike

I am doing a sermon series on the “Hard Sayings of Jesus” on Sunday mornings. Many of those hard sayings occur in Matthew 24-25. Jesus says things like: “There will be wars and rumors of wars. Nations will rise against nations. There will be famines...

Where Is God When We Suffer?

I received considerable response recently regarding what I wrote about Pat Robertson’s alleged conversations with God. So clearly, going after him now for saying that the earthquake in Haiti was the result of a Haitian pact with the devil would surely provoke a...