Christian Right

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…

Here on RD, I took a look at the legal case against exempting churches from public health measures back in March ( remember March? ), in the early days of quarantine. At the time, many blue state…

When news broke this past Friday that a controversial Instagram photo would result in Jerry Falwell, Jr. taking an “indefinite leave of absence” as president of Liberty University, it was only the…

Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, has been doing the op-ed thing recently to publicize his new book: White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American…