https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to david french en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/09/19/good-enough-christians-russell-moore-atlantic-illustrates-limitations-christian As a transgender person who grew up evangelical and is now an atheist, I feel the consequences of the “ myth of Christian innocence ” that profoundly shapes American society in ways that many Americans do not. Fully two-thirds of… Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:03:30 EDT Chrissy Stroop 73d35834-6832-4cfb-9b99-b0160d217e68 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/29/rising-influence-new-apostolic-reformation-teachings-ominous-sign-us-especially-lgbtq Whether or not anyone recognizes it by name, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is hitting its stride. After his June declaration that “every teacher, every classroom… will be teaching from the Bible,” Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, who… Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:48:35 EDT Jonathon Sawyer 5e940aa4-aa08-44ac-b58e-d8e19bf46bb7 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/06/18/critiques-evangelical-writers-opposing-christian-nationalism-fail-recognize Today’s public discussion of Christian nationalism is led in part by a group of conservative anti-Trump evangelicals, many of whom write for centrist or center-left publications. Yet, for all their eloquence, they persistently fail to acknowledge that previous generations of… Tue, 18 Jun 2024 04:54:14 EDT David Hollinger 3146be99-26af-494d-b219-89e04b213ad4 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/02/16/latest-book-evangelical-extremism-reflects-pervasive-tendency-beat-judaism-save-jesus Perhaps you’re in the crowd that’s baffled by the behavior of American evangelicals. How could these people who, according to this crowd, stood up for traditional moral values ( whatever those are ) and volunteered to build houses for poor… Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:04:43 EST Greg Carey 723c049a-d8a1-4ed6-ad06-0d65f14c9a07 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/26/seeking-broad-appeal-us-christians-god-country-rise-christian-nationalism-glosses-over I wanted to like God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism , the new Rob Reiner-produced documentary on “the dangerous implications” of Christian nationalism. I wanted to like it in spite of the trailer’s focus on the ostensible “threat”… Fri, 26 Jan 2024 05:41:54 EST Chrissy Stroop f14d8443-ebe1-4887-8c80-2386cf209eb1 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/20/after-roe-3-troubling-trends-compassionate-anti-abortion-crowd In the early ’90s, my Catholic grade school hosted a guest speaker, a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature. After giving our eighth-grade class a basic civics lesson, he opened the floor to Q&A. And, in the excruciating hour that… Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:38:23 EDT Robert Repino 1e148793-3fdb-4e9b-943e-41e62a946c22 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/10/right-using-fbis-mar-lago-search-martyr-trump-and-maintain-violent-myth-big-lie On Monday, the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Florida, during which, according to the former president, federal officials even “broke into my safe.” While there are reports that the warrant for the search is related to classified documents… Wed, 10 Aug 2022 05:29:56 EDT Bradley Onishi 96f6945e-b89b-4c6f-9b77-4c5c9e920444 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/22/pew-finds-trump-era-increase-evangelical-label-and-yes-theyre-real-evangelicals New data released by the Pew Research Center has pundits once again running with the unhelpful narrative that America’s conservative, mostly white evangelicals comprise an essentially “ political ” (as opposed to “religious”) identity and movement—the not-so-subtle subtext being that… Wed, 22 Sep 2021 02:31:12 EDT Chrissy Stroop dab9f987-c2ca-4a7d-862b-479d9acf915f https://religiondispatches.org/2021/05/12/not-peace-division-evangelical-vaccine-refusers-divide-families A friend of mine was raised in a family that was quirky, sarcastic, into alternative medicine, and, although not overly legalistic, evangelical. This friend was also raised with the notion that the proper Christian approach to voting is to go… Wed, 12 May 2021 02:42:26 EDT Chrissy Stroop 2afb03e6-fa71-4be2-a83b-7d8ea2b03243 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/04/13/sex-outside-marriage-dehumanizing-problem-tim-kellers-biblical-sex-ethic There’s a reason Tim Keller, Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in New York, enjoys a greater degree of public respect than many conservative evangelical leaders who clearly crave respectability . When you take a mild jab at Tim Keller… Tue, 13 Apr 2021 05:04:48 EDT Chrissy Stroop 29068506-96d7-4081-8b3d-39b9e4bff246 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/04/06/have-white-evangelicals-finally-lost-control-narrative Are conservative, mostly white evangelicals, finally losing control of their narrative in the public sphere, where Christian supremacist assumptions have up to now led to the effective silencing of ex-evangelical and critical scholarly voices? Recent developments suggest that a significant… Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:02:27 EDT Chrissy Stroop cd79f77c-750b-4e71-bb13-63286feabb7a https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/17/rep-kinzinger-rejects-judgmental-family-letter-hes-no-cure-evangelical-gop This week, Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of only ten Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted for Donald Trump’s second impeachment, released to The New York Times a letter signed by 11 members of his family eviscerating him… Wed, 17 Feb 2021 04:23:18 EST Chrissy Stroop 2d0ff3ee-9686-4281-bc2d-949ca4eb28fe https://religiondispatches.org/2020/09/11/culture-wars-masquerading-social-science-new-survey-illustrates-evangelicals-election 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 ecosystem, including flagship “ respectable ” evangelical periodical Christianity… Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:50:25 EDT Chrissy Stroop 6b4cb148-9d80-43e1-8c1c-e32e0ae453b4 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/07/24/why-respectable-evangelicals-cant-rein-evangelical-conspiracy-theorists According to a recent blog post by David French, former staff writer for the National Review ,* there’s a simple solution to the problem of conservative, mostly white evangelicals spreading wild and harmful conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic, Bill… Fri, 24 Jul 2020 02:53:34 EDT Chrissy Stroop 9e1da3ed-c1e1-4be2-990c-b7456034c6b6 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/02/15/pair-christian-colleges-quietly-cracking-down-lgbtq-acceptance As America reels from the exposure of a massive child sexual abuse scandal in the Southern Baptist Convention, we should pause to take stock of the culpability of the broader conservative, mostly white evangelical subculture. Fri, 15 Feb 2019 04:05:51 EST Chrissy Stroop eaf86ab7-5513-457d-9c52-b5d420a5ab23 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/25/question-what-kind-football-does-god-fancy After leading his team to victory over the Seattle Seahawks last Sunday, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers told reporters that God “was a Packers fan tonight”—a retort to Russell Wilson’s comment that God had “set up” the Seahawks’ win… Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:59:01 EDT Jeffrey Scholes 9dce5082-309d-4698-9d18-f6ea3544b9c9 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/06/19/yerushalmi-national-review-and-conservative-fight-over-shariah Which conservatives will prevail? Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:28:43 EDT Sarah Posner 7018bffd-6eba-4f76-928f-539fdde3dc5b https://religiondispatches.org/2011/05/19/evangelical-pr-guru-signs-romney-campaign-again Mark DeMoss played a role in ‘08 campaign. Thu, 19 May 2011 11:52:02 EDT Sarah Posner a41fcb76-a93f-436d-904b-4d65936d190e https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/23/planned-parenthood-stung-lila-rose Lila Rose, a 20-year-old UCLA student, is taking on Planned Parenthood with a phony story, video equipment, and support from a host of Christian Right media outlets and organizations. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:33:42 EDT Bill Berkowitz a74244d8-66f6-47c8-ac39-22539e5f8cb4