Christian Right

On Wednesday, January 6, I, like almost everyone else in America, watched as a mob of predominantly white domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol, in an attempt to prevent the Senate from certifying…

When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, most news reports focused on those who were Pro-Trump evangelicals and their ties to white Christian nationalism . Yet, as the…

Selfies and photojournalists’ images reveal mostly white men at January 6th’s Trump rally and siege of the Capitol. This is unsurprising; the nexus of whiteness and masculinity features prominently in…

I grew up in the white evangelical community, surrounded by individuals who became Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters. Although numerous factors motivated support in this community, one bears…

There’s a reason religion and politics are forbidden topics in polite conversation: they’re divisive. Mixing the two is doubly so. President Joe Biden is a deeply religious man who turns to his faith…

In her new book, Saving History: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation’s Capital and Redeem a Christian America , religion scholar Lauren Kerby details D.C.’s Christian heritage tour industry and its…

As the United States prepares for the end of a nightmarish one-term presidency that seemed to drag on forever, Americans continue to unpack the January 6 insurrection that now even soon-to-be Senate…

On Wednesday, January 6, a day now infamous for many Americans, I was pulled from my daily work tasks by a colleague’s text urging me to turn on the television and stop all work. We all know what…

This Religious Freedom Day, January 16 th, we want to highlight the idea that religious freedom is inescapably linked with reproductive freedom. We cannot fully have one without the other. Religious…

A month ago, I argued here on RD that America’s national conversation about Christianity is “fundamentally unserious.” Not because, as conservative Christian commentator Bonnie Kristian would have it…