President Lazarus? Understanding US politics
Tony Bennett
Having spent a lifetime teaching and writing about American politics, I’m often asked this question by bemused church friends: “Why did 82% of white evangelical men vote for Donald Trump in 2024?” And the first thing that I want them to understand is that both they and those American voters are using the word “evangelical” to mean two different things.
My friends use the word to refer to something spiritual centring on the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ concerning man’s sinfulness, Christ’s atoning sacrifice on the cross, the empowering of the Holy Spirit to live God-honouring lives, and the need to preach that gospel to those as yet unsaved.
European integration and the Christian?
Tony Bennett
Tony Blair has given signals that he will be looking for Britain to adopt the euro in the next few years. No doubt there will be much debate among Christians about this. Here Tony Bennett expresses views against . . .
France and Germany began European integration by agreeing joint production of coal and steel in 1949, and developing that in 1951 by bringing Italy and the Benelux countries into the 'European Coal and Steel Federation'.
