The following article by Tiffany Stanley was posted on the Politico website December 17, 2017:
Jen Hatmaker is one of the most popular religious figures in America—and she is paying a steep price for speaking out for what she believes.
Last fall, Jen Hatmaker, a popular evangelical author and speaker, started getting death threats. Readers mailed back her books to her home address, but not before some burned the pages or tore them into shreds. LifeWay Christian Stores, the behemoth retailer of the Southern Baptist Convention, pulled her titles off the shelves. Hatmaker was devastated. Up until that point, she had been a wildly influential and welcome presence in the evangelical world, a Christian author whose writings made the New York Times best-seller list and whose home renovation got its own HGTV series. But then 2016 happened, and, well, of course everything changed. Continue reading “This Evangelical Leader Denounced Trump. Then the Death Threats Started.”