Christian Right

Have you ever noticed that for hardline ideologues, only their opponents are “doing politics,” while they are simply “being objective”? In my last piece for RD I looked at the related ways in which…

Thirty-five years before Donald Trump descended the escalator of his gaudy Manhattan skyscraper to launch his presidential run by way of a racist attack on Mexicans—“they’re bringing drugs, they’re…

The 2020 results of Ligonier Ministries’ and Lifeway Research’s State of Theology Survey, a project published every two years since 2014, are causing a minor moral panic in the evangelical information…

With white evangelicals, America’s most pro-Trump demographic, currently in the news for sex scandals , committing violence , and defending violence , we once again find the meaning of Christianity…

Christianity has long had a white supremacy problem. The Kenosha aftermath has just made it clear. GiveSendGo, a “Christian crowdfunding” site has raised more than $360,000 for Kyle Rittenhouse, the…

Four years after he played a key role in shifting white evangelical support from Ted Cruz to Donald Trump Jerry Falwell, Jr. is absent from the Republican Convention and has resigned in disgrace from…

Among the more surprising inclusions at the 2020 Republican National Convention was Patricia and Mark McCloskey, the white couple from St. Louis who brandished guns at Black Lives Matter protestors…

Yesterday, August 24, 2020, was the first day of classes at right-wing evangelical school Liberty University. It also turned out to be the final day of the scandal-prone Jerry Falwell, Jr.’s…

What does it mean to put pluralism into practice? This is a serious question of civic life that the Left has unfortunately neglected , allowing the “ respectable ” Christian Right to weaponize the…

Despite an American Idol judging gig, a baby girl with Orlando Bloom on the way, and her new album Smile due out August 28 th , Katy Perry hasn’t been capturing the public’s attention like she did…