The Rev. John MacArthur, an influential and exacting evangelical preacher, has died at the age of 86. He led Grace Community Church in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sun Valley ...

He was a fundamentalist, not an evangelical. He may have gotten over being Baptist, but he never got over fundamentalism.

John McArthur, the de facto leader of one of American Protestantism’s major contemporary wings, died on July 14, 2025, at the age of 86. The son and grandson of preachers, MacArthur was the author of ...