Will Mormons vote for Donald Trump this November? With all the attention given to whether or not evangelicals will support Trump (and the related, if diversionary, question of whether those who do are…
The 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia came to an end last night with Hillary Clinton’s speech, in which she accepted the presidential nomination. Clinton, of course, was the star of…
In another post, I looked at some of the religious narratives surfacing around the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Let’s turn now to a view from within the convention—specifically, at…
Welcome to the first in a sporadic series of posts on popularly misunderstood, misused, or misleading terms, stories, and ideas from the world of religion. In this first installment, “Miss Conception…
The presidential race took a turn to religion recently. It was an opportunity to clearly and definitively locate the two presumptive candidates on the map of American religion, and it mostly failed…
There’s lots of good stuff in the new PRRI/Brookings poll on immigration and cultural change released yesterday, including, oddly, a long section on voters’ views on terrorism, crime, and unemployment…
In a recent piece over at Slate, Ruth Graham argues that the current state of the Republican Party and conservative evangelicalism presents liberal Christians with an opportunity to be heard through…