SENIOR FELLOW AT THE TRINITY FORUM AND CONTRIBUTING WRITER FOR THE ATLANTIC, PETE WEINER, HIS NEW PIECE IS TITLED THE EVANGELICALS WHO IT'S A GREAT THING TO SEE TRUMP'S VICIOUSNESS AS A VIRTUE. AND IN IT, PETE, YOU WRITE IN PART THIS, IT IS ODD TO SEE THE VERY SAME EVANGELICALS PEOPLE WHO CLAIMED THE BIBLE IS INERRANT AND WHO CRITICIZE FELLOW CHRISTIANS ABOUT MATTERS SUCH AS ORGAINING WOMEN ON THE GROUNDS THAT THEY ARE BEING UNFAITHFUL TO WHAT THAT PAUL WROTE IN ONE OF HIS EPISTOLS, AN INTERPRETATION THAT M ...

The original American evangelicals were English Calvinists from England. They preached their sermons and sung their hymns and talked about their work and everything else in English. (A few of the smart ones also learned the classical European languages, Latin and Greek). "Melting" was an Englishman converting to Calvinism, and if you were not that you went and lived in some other, distant, community.Some of these were my ancestors, and researching genealogy has given me an interesting look at how they lived ...

Program Impact & Criticism - PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) has saved 26 million lives since 2003 [3] - The potential dismantling of PEPFAR could lead to over 3 million deaths by the end of the decade, and the shuttering of USAD (United States Agency for International Development) could result in 14 million deaths [5] - The executive order 14169 led to the deaths of more than 80,000 people [5] - The program was considered efficient, accountable, and had bipartisan support [3][4] Evangelical Response - The silence of evangelicals regarding the diminishing of PEPFAR is a central point of concern [6] - Some pastors were unaware of the situation, while others cited focus on local ministries or fear of politicizing the church as reasons for their silence [10][11][12] - The lack of widespread evangelical outcry contrasts sharply with the swift backlash against World Vision's policy change regarding same-sex couple employment [14][15] Ethical & Moral Implications - The decision to cut programs that save lives is viewed as a clear violation of Jesus's teachings [7][8][13] - The act is described as intentionally malicious and cruel, especially considering the program's relatively small cost to the US government [4][6] - The situation is framed as a moral test for the evangelical community [15]