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Since Donald Trump started winning Republican primaries this winter, evangelical leaders have looked to absolve themselves of the taint that has come with the surprising news of his significant…

With every lurching brawl that brings America’s Problem Child one short finger closer to the Republican nomination for President of the United States (and that much closer to what looks like a sure…

Why do so many American evangelicals support the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump? Stephen Prothero, writing for Politico, recently added his voice to the chorus of analysts considering this…

I start my day like every Muslim does. By checking my phone. Breitbart, though, is hardly the first, second, or even third website I’ll check. Actually Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos’ “ An…

Despite the clear animus of some high profile atheists, those who don’t believe in God are the most tolerant.

Mormons don’t like Donald Trump. That now seems abundantly clear after yesterday’s results in Utah where Ted Cruz trounced Trump, winning nearly 70 percent of the vote. With a paltry 14 percent, Trump…

McKay Coppins has a neat article on Buzzfeed about why so many Utahn (and Idahoan) Mormons seem to be so immune to Donald Trump? (Consider this to be my indirect and strong endorsement of The…

Pundits rely far too much on what we say and they miss the deeper picture.

From Trump’s support among evangelicals to Bernie Sanders’ secular Judaism to Hillary’s “voice of God” ad campaign, the religion-in-politics rule book is getting a major rewrite in 2016. And while…

I’ve been a fan of Psalm 73 ever since I read Martin Buber’s interpretation of it almost twenty-five years ago. So it was a pleasant surprise to find it cited in David Brooks’ latest, and to date most…