“Never Trump. This time Harris. Always Jesus.” These were the words not of Taylor Swift or Pete Buttigieg but of Ray Ortlund, a card-carrying member of “Big Eva,” in a recent Threads post.
In his opinion, following Jesus means rejecting Donald Trump and embracing Kamala Harris this election.
Ortlund is the founder of and pastor at Immanuel Church in Nashville, where Christianity Today editor-in-chief and outspoken ex-Southern Baptist Russell Moore is coincidentally the minister in residence. Ortlund recently joined a webinar from the left-wing Bible resource organization The After Party, a project of Moore, Curtis Chang, and their Never Trump buddy David French. So it was no surprise when French popped into Ortlund’s comments to say, “This is the way.”
When the post didn’t go over well, Ortlund deleted it but didn’t apologize. Instead of Sorry, I regret what I said, Ortlund opted for My critics “misinterpreted” me and I should have known they would. In fact, he even responded with a hearty “you are most welcome” to a commenter who thanked him for his original message.
Ortlund isn’t the first of his ilk to endorse Harris. French wrote an entire article from his perch at The New York Times titled “To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris,” in which he twisted in knots both the truth and himself to explain his impending vote for Kamala. Of course, every attack he hurls against Trump — lying, violence, cruelty, sexual sin, support for abortion, and suboptimal foreign
