Christian Right

According to a recent study, those who have a stable religious or secular identity generally report greater well being; however, those who consider leaving religion but stay, tend to experience poorer…

Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in the polling booth, the sounds of the social hall echoing around me. The same refrain played every time I convinced myself…

Frederick Clarkson was the guest speaker at the Sunday morning meeting of the New York Society for Ethical Culture on February 25, 2018. He spoke on the theme of how Religious Freedom is a Progressive…

It’s been interesting to wake up this morning and discover that the #NEVERAGAIN kids have rattled everyone from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to the National Review’s Charles W. Cooke, to Marco Rubio…

Billy Graham, Sunday School teacher, failed salesman, and cold-war fear-monger died last week at the age of 99. In the dozens of obituaries making the rounds on social media, you will seldom see one…

Billy Graham’s death on the same day as the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X is an interesting postscript to the life of America’s premier evangelist of Americanism. It would take an…

Billy Graham, by any measure the most famous religious figure of the twentieth century, died today [at his home in Montreat, North Carolina]. He was ninety-nine years old. In a career that extended well over half a century, Graham took a simple evangelical message – give your heart…

Are they or aren’t they? As pundits have noticed, younger white evangelicals show signs that they are abandoning the political conservatism and GOP loyalty that defined their parents’ generation. Yet…

It’s been a little over a year since the president first took office, and the role of white evangelical support for Donald Trump remains under the microscope. Last year I wrote a story about the…

What inspired you to write Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850 ? There is a great book by Paul Hallam called the Book of Sodom (Verso, 1995…