Update: On the social issues front, perhaps the most remarkable development of the debate didn’t happen last night, but today, when FoxNews apparently edited out Jeb Bush’s fumbling answer on whether…
Two prominent evangelicals penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week, asserting that “candidates who actually have a shot at winning the presidency should understand: Immigrant-bashing…
Tony Campolo has an epiphany. Franklin Graham has a meltdown. And Scott Walker decides to time-travel. It might be the start of a joke: three white evangelical men walk into a bar (or a Chick-Fil-A)….
Jeb Bush is defending Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s faulty defense of his state’s recently enacted Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Like Pence, Bush is wrong, but Bush’s elaboration laid bare his…
When speaking to religious audiences, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker likes to remind people that he goes to church and knows his Bible. These reminders frequently come as Walker seeks to distinguish…
Alex Theodoridis, a political scientist at the University of California, Merced, conducted a survey last fall of Americans’ understanding of President Obama’s religious beliefs. Remarkably, he found…
At this moment the embattled US labor movement urgently needs strong community-based allies and much greater moral legitimation, yet broad-based strategic and moral support from the religious side has been slow to materialize.