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Tuesday was not a happy day for religion writers like myself who explore the intersection of the Catholic Church and American politics. With Marco Rubio’s withdrawal from the GOP nomination race on…

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…

Gay men of a certain age—those of us who survived the Plague Years when so many others perished, including our lovers and friends—may at times be oversensitive and even possessive in our memories of…

Isn’t that just business as usual for Christians? No.

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

Jonathan Orbell asks what progressive Christians are to do in light of the rise of Trump and his flying fascist monkey squads. The answers that spring immediately to mind are: Research Canadian…

Much ink has already been spilled trying to parse Donald Trump’s appeal to evangelicals. Are the “Trumpvangelicals” more concerned with “immigration, Islamophobia, and guns” than abortion and gay…

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…