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Is Donald Trump really pro-life or is he just faking it, stoking his anti-abortion bona fides to appeal to the socially and religiously conservative base of the Republican Party? According to leading…

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…

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

This week, Utah and Idaho delivered Bernie’s largest margin of victories in the Democratic primaries since Vermont—with both giving him nearly 80 percent of the vote. The record turnouts in many…

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…

Mitt is so Mormon his campaign slogan was “What do you know about Mitt Romney? Would you like to know more?”

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…