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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…

Nobody listens to religious leaders these days. Nobody.

Super Tuesday and the success of Donald Trump among evangelicals have caused otherwise sensible observers to once again declare the religious right to be dead. As in the past, reports of its death…

Why can’t Douthat admit that the apostasy he deplores is at the center of white Christianity and not at the margins?

If pundits paid attention to evangelicals beyond their stances on moral values the popularity of Donald Trump among them might not be quite so inexplicable. Joining the chorus of voices from all over…

How to explain Trump’s success in the context of American Christianity? Rachel Held Evans has offered: “Racism and xenophobia remain powerful forces in our country, as does celebrity worship, and…

Following Donald Trump’s win in South Carolina’s Republican primary last week, conservative pundit Erick Erickson declared on his website that he will never vote for Trump because of the candidate’s…