Christian Right

Last week, the evangelical-influenced Barna Group released findings from its new study, “ The Porn Phenomenon,” based on a survey commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministries. The study, which poses a…

US Vice President Joe Biden addressed a group of business leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum and urged them to do more to advance LGBT equality, saying there is never…

I’m writing from Washington, D.C., where we are bracing for a historic blizzard that might dump more than two feet of snow on the area. Grocery and hardware stores are being emptied of food, batteries…

It’s been established by now that Dr. Hawkins’ assertion that Muslims and Christians worship the same God hardly falls outside the mainstream of orthodox evangelical theology—a point Dr. Hawkins…

On a fall day in 1998 I sat opposite the kindly guidance counselor at my Midwestern Christian high school who extolled the virtues of evangelical higher education. She seemed concerned that Christian…

I first heard Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II speak at a Moral Mondays rally in Raleigh that I attended with my classmates back in February 2014. It was powerful and incisive in its moral criticism of…

An interview with journalist and activist Frederick Clarkson

With Kim Davis and representatives of the Little Sisters of the Poor both trotted out as as GOP guests at President Obama’s state of the union speech, it’s clear that “religious freedom” is here to…

Poor David Brooks. He wants to write about what ails the evangelical affection for Ted Cruz and what he sees as a tenuous relationship with Christian virtue, but he seems to misapprehend that…

Last week, Roy S. Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, ruled that his state’s probate judges must enforce Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage. Moore, who first rose to national fame for…