Big Eva Treachery

Moore, French and Co. partner with the Rockefellers and Co.

Before I get to the main topic, I should note that my fear of overreacting to the Mere Anglicanism conference dismissal of Calvin Robinson may have been unfounded. 

I may have under-reacted given how messy the aftermath has become.

Matt Kennedy wrote one of the better big picture looks at the situation yesterday, but there have been developments even since it was posted.  Barely Protestant had a good interview with Fr. Calvin this morning, and Robinson intends to release audio of his meeting with conference directors later today. That will be interesting.  I may post links in the comments later on.

If I have anything value-added to post on the situation, I will do so later.  Also, I should clarify I do NOT consider this situation, as bad as it is, to be Big Eva treachery. Read on for that.

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Monday, I made a bold statement that might have rubbed a few the wrong way, that perhaps went too far:

Big Evangelism is dead. I think it has been so co-opted by whatever secular ideologies happen to be trendy that it is hardly evangelicalism any more.

After some further reading and thought, I think I owe my readers an apology….

I didn’t go far enough.

Part of my reading was this excellent bit of research by Megan Basham in First Things:

Secular news outlets from NPR to the New York Times are hailing Tim Alberta’s new book, The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory, for furthering the popular thesis that evangelicals have abandoned themselves to political idolatry. By “political idolatry” they mean “political conservatism,” as neither Alberta’s book nor the many prestige outlets enthusing over it have a word of criticism for Christians who advance left-wing causes. However, a curious passage in the book suggests that those leveling this charge may be most guilty of infecting the church with partisanship.

Alberta reports on The After Party, a forthcoming program led by Duke Divinity consulting professor Curtis Chang and developed with New York Times columnist David French and Christianity Today editor in chief Russell Moore. The program offers pastors and small groups a curriculum “reframing Christian political identity from today’s divisive partisan options.”

Ah yes, those three.  They aren’t divisive or partisan at all. [/sarc] Although perhaps you have not heard about Chang much . . . yet.

Anyway, their After Party project hit a bit of a snag.  Actual Christians were reluctant to give it the desired funding.  Gosh, I wonder why.  So Chang’s Redeeming Babel organization turned to . . . Rockefeller money.

[In] May 2022, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors announced that The After Party would be one of the thirty-two beneficiaries of their New Pluralists project, which is investing $10 million to “address divisive forces.” [like those deplorable actual Christians - Ed.] If that money were divided evenly, it would more than cover the entire $250,000 budget of Chang’s umbrella organization, Redeeming Babel, which is behind The After Party.

And that grant is not a one off.  I did a bit of extra nosing around and found out those Rockefeller “New Pluralists” have funded an “evangelical” campus group called Neighborly Faith.  Here’s how New Pluralists describe their grant:

Evangelical campus groups convene and train tens of millions of students around the world to evangelize their neighbors and build Christian communities at colleges. In recent years, a team of Evangelical campus staff in Chicago have become concerned that their programs are not meeting the moment—either for their faith or their city—and want to begin partnering across faiths. Because of this, Neighborly Faith will convene and train at least 20 local staff to lead change in their campus groups. These staff will build cross-faith partnerships and plan events that challenge students to resist the allure of Christian nationalism and instead imagine their faith and citizenship through a lens of spirited pluralism.

Yes, partner with other faiths to resist evil “Christian nationalism.” And a peak at Neighborly Faith’s site reveals that includes partnering with very pluralistic Muslims and that very non-partisan Democracy Fund.  But that’s all for evangelism, don’tcha know.

Guess what other evangelical groups are in with Neighborly Faith: Cru and “and student groups on dozens of Evangelical Christian college campuses,” including on Wheaton, Trinity, Fuller, Moody, Calvin and more.

Back to Basham and the After Party:

Rockefeller’s isn’t the only progressive purse with strings attached to The After Party. The project’s website lists One America Movement, an ecumenical group, as one of its partners. The group’s board includes the leader of an LGBTQ-affirming synagogue, as well as a co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York who excuses rioting as self-defense and has called Jesus a “black radical revolutionary.” One America has received over $2 million from some of the most powerful foundations on the left—such as the Tides Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Walton family’s Catena Foundation, and the John Pritzker Family Fund—all of which fund enterprises promoting abortion, LGBTQ issues, and other left-wing priorities. The Hewlett Foundation, which also directly funds The After Party, is the second largest private donor to Planned Parenthood.

I hope at this point, one sees that Russell, French, Chang and their After Party are quite pleased to be a front group infiltrating the church for evil big money foundations opposing The Faith along with the Constitution.  Treachery can pay well!  Speaking of Chang being paid well for treachery:

Chang blamed the “American Church” for the January 6 riot, saying we “own what happened at the Capitol.” He urged California voters to oppose the recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom. And he leveraged his Christian platform to argue against religious exemptions from vaccine mandates, running the website Christians and the Vaccine, and distributing videos that described the jab as a “redemption” of aborted cell lines—all while acting as a paid consultant for federal health agencies.

Sounds like a nice grift.  Oh, remember that Evangelical Immigration Table I ranted about the other day?

Well…

Between 2013 and 2014, the Ford, Rockefeller, and Tides foundations contributed a combined $1.3 million to the Evangelical Immigration Table’s “Bibles, Badges, and Business” initiative, launched to mobilize evangelical support for amnesty legislation such as the failed Gang of Eight bill.

I should be shocked by Big Eva taking money from Big Left to facilitate amnesty for illegals.  Should be.  But I’ve seen Big Eva in action enough that I can be hard to shock now.

Yet this is all quite brazen, is it not?  One might as well take grants from the Dominion of Satan to do his bidding . . . which might be what is going on with at least some in Big Eva, whether unwittingly or not.

So, yes, again I apologize for saying Big Eva has been “co-opted.”  It turns out I didn’t go far enough.  “Treachery” is too often a more accurate word when it comes to Big Evangelicalism of recent years.