Since Donald Trump started winning Republican primaries this winter, evangelical leaders have looked to absolve themselves of the taint that has come with the surprising news of his significant…
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…
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…
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’m writing from Washington, D.C., where we are bracing for a historic blizzard that might dump more than two feet of snow on the area. Grocery and hardware stores are being emptied of food, batteries…
Poor David Brooks. He wants to write about what ails the evangelical affection for Ted Cruz and what he sees as a tenuous relationship with Christian virtue, but he seems to misapprehend that…
In the midst of an intra-evangelical dispute over whether Ted Cruz is indeed consolidating the support of influential evangelical leaders, supporters of Marco Rubio’s campaign are trying to make the…
While Sen. Ted Cruz’s purported lock on the evangelical vote may be l argely an illusion, as noted by RD’s Sarah Posner, it’s potent enough to rattle Donald Trump into making assertions about Cruz’s…
Just after Christmas, Ted Cruz met with several hundred evangelical leaders at a Texas ranch belonging to Farris Wilks, a fracking billionaire who, along with his brother Dan and their wives, have…