https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to white evangelicalism en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/27/prophecy-and-prosperity-are-keys-republican-christian-nationalism-according-new-poll This morning, PRRI released a new study on religious change in the US with implications for understanding support for White Christian nationalism and its avatar, Donald Trump. Those implications fall into two broad categories: religious change and the faith identity… Wed, 27 Mar 2024 02:32:05 EDT Daniel Schultz 59b22e1d-db76-4c5b-814c-34bffebbc543 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/12/new-research-suggests-belief-demons-may-help-explain-christian-support-trump In a strange way, I envy the people who were raised as evangelical Christians in the 1980s and 1990s, because many of them got to experience This Present Darkness in a way I never could. For the uninitiated, This Present… Tue, 12 Mar 2024 01:57:54 EDT Robert Repino 897d1df0-d1b6-4c44-bff6-e5cbc042879a https://religiondispatches.org/2024/02/16/latest-book-evangelical-extremism-reflects-pervasive-tendency-beat-judaism-save-jesus Perhaps you’re in the crowd that’s baffled by the behavior of American evangelicals. How could these people who, according to this crowd, stood up for traditional moral values ( whatever those are ) and volunteered to build houses for poor… Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:04:43 EST Greg Carey 723c049a-d8a1-4ed6-ad06-0d65f14c9a07 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/16/dispelling-zombie-myth-white-evangelical-support-trump Yesterday’s inaugural Republican primary event gave us our first official glimpse into the 2024 election-year love affair between Trump and White evangelicals —and judging from the results they haven’t lost that loving feeling. White evangelicals are highly influential in the… Tue, 16 Jan 2024 04:23:34 EST Robert P. Jones 6aecee6c-5227-4dac-94b5-872f35b53e9b https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/04/pop-culture-angels-are-more-just-embarrassing-kitsch Cloying sentimentality, saccharine pablum, ridiculous camp and embarrassing kitsch—in the contemporary moment the word “angel” hasn’t fared well among those who describe themselves as sophisticates or intellectuals. To many, angels don’t simply conjure superstitious beliefs, but embarrassing superstitious beliefs. Faith… Thu, 04 Jan 2024 05:19:00 EST Ed Simon 0c60b7d3-2a6a-4a2a-8060-4bd1224a4b8a https://religiondispatches.org/2023/11/19/netanyahus-genocidal-religious-rhetoric-isnt-just-appeal-israeli-right-he-has-another As a horrifying humanitarian crisis unfolds in Palestine/Israel, observers have been alarmed by the Israeli leadership’s deployment of religious rhetoric and colonialist talking points in its response to the Hamas attacks. On October 28th, for example, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… Sun, 19 Nov 2023 05:43:37 EST Brock Bahler d2acaf09-a698-4579-b4af-e5e0cff6e083 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/11/16/vermin-remark-trump-crosses-fully-nazi-territory One of the most dangerous things about Donald Trump is the way he has normalized hate speech. The venom and vitriol come so often that even when it is reported, its extremism fails to register with a fatigued and desensitized… Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:27:55 EST Robert P. Jones 433dce33-00c7-4824-be02-2478656a71d4 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/11/15/mike-johnsons-porn-monitoring-isnt-just-creepy-its-window-fascist-desire-driving-white When the news broke that the recently elected Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson (R-La), used a Christian technology service called Covenant Eyes to monitor his online habits for porn, reactions varied. The fact that his then-17-year-old son Jack served… Wed, 15 Nov 2023 02:20:20 EST Jessica Johnson eedc9446-99aa-4ad8-abef-7a963b394700 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/10/18/israel-hamas-not-religious-war-and-not-your-rapture Hamas’ October 7 attack was monstrous. Hundreds killed at a music f e stival along with hundreds more in their homes or on the streets. Women and children butchered on a kibbutz in the south. In response Israel launched a… Wed, 18 Oct 2023 04:07:17 EDT Thomas Lecaque 3646e6eb-28f8-4e85-9943-85e42a08796a https://religiondispatches.org/2023/08/15/russell-moore-claims-theres-crisis-evangelical-america-white-evangelicalism-exactly Russell Moore used to be one of the top officials of the most powerful religious organization in the country, the Southern Baptist Convention, before he was pushed out in 2021 for criticizing Donald Trump . Since then, Moore has rebranded… Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:57:49 EDT John Stoehr df22f7e3-0543-4a88-84d7-50940492c1d6 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/07/12/bible-youll-love-lets-go-brandon-t-shirt-how-ai-marketing-shapes-identity Over the past several months, lawmakers on both state and federal levels have worked to pass legislation regulating social media algorithms (especially TikTok ). Among other things, the debates have revealed (or reminded us) that a lot of folks fail… Wed, 12 Jul 2023 02:34:42 EDT Lauren Horn Griffin f6a4441d-ddbc-4280-9298-4ec32fc68dc5 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/07/07/apocalyptic-rhetoric-moms-liberty-summit-illustrates-political-challenge-2024 As Annika Brockschmidt has already detailed for readers of RD, the June 30 – July 2 Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia was, among other things, a Christian nationalist gathering. At one of its main events, which took place at… Fri, 07 Jul 2023 04:43:53 EDT Chrissy Stroop 2f4f5ba1-6e10-4395-9607-ee20c7d7d1b8 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/06/08/top-five-less-sensational-more-dangerous-things-remember-about-pat-robertson-1930-2023 Sure, it’s easy to poke fun at Pat Robertson for his 2,000-pound leg press claims or to scold him for his vile Haiti comments, but Robertson thrives on the ‘persecution.’ Our list spins the Robertson moral differently and shows just why he’s been a truly dangerous figure. Thu, 08 Jun 2023 05:27:59 EDT Mark Hulsether 1fafedef-45b2-4e43-b38e-9022ff5e97e4 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/06/08/new-poll-reveals-anti-trans-rhetoric-isnt-just-affecting-republicans-and-white Remember when transgender Americans seemed to be having a positive cultural moment? Former child actor and author Chaz Bono, Sonny and Cher’s transgender son, helped pave the way with a documentary about his experience that came out in 2011, the… Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:29:39 EDT Chrissy Stroop df223ab5-2c06-4ffb-8bfb-3268e8f853a1 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/05/17/new-data-strongly-suggest-correlation-between-disaffiliation-and-christianitys For centuries, American evangelical Protestants have been obsessed with religious ‘revival.’ Fear of ostensible societal, moral, and religious ‘decline’ is the other side of the same paranoid Christian coin. The United States, deeply influenced by early Puritan settlers and other… Wed, 17 May 2023 03:10:02 EDT Chrissy Stroop 22349fab-511f-4a50-bae5-ef8a7222b312 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/03/01/he-gets-us-and-sleazy-swift-boat-ads-share-central-figure-further-evidence-right-wing One of the funnier developments in the ongoing drama around the “He Gets Us” campaign that aired pro-Jesus ads during the Grammy Awards and the Super Bowl has been the attacks from numerous evangelicals on social media who berate the… Wed, 01 Mar 2023 04:41:38 EST Chrissy Stroop 17bafb02-3a0b-4d5a-85ad-cba1bcffd90b https://religiondispatches.org/2023/02/09/christian-nationalism-authentically-christian-and-according-new-poll-most-white When I attended K-12 evangelical Christian schools in the 1980s and 1990s, we didn’t call ourselves Christian nationalists; we just called ourselves Christians. As the pious Christians we were (compelled to be), we memorized Bible verses for assignments, attended mandatory… Thu, 09 Feb 2023 04:07:12 EST Chrissy Stroop fe34f301-d905-4f23-bb96-4ea2daab96a3 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/16/christian-nationalist-bestseller-rooted-volk-homeland-and-patriarchy-blood-relation As a researcher , I’ve tracked the ascendance of White Christian nationalism in the United States for years by following preachers, rallies, politicians, militias, and, sadly, insurrections. As a former evangelical minister , it’s a world that shaped my youth… Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:31:36 EST Bradley Onishi c214d67e-6a0b-412e-9252-d711f3efefe6 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/27/2022-american-values-survey-offers-some-good-news-and-some-bad As usual, PRRI’s 2022 American Values Survey, released this morning, is chock full of interesting data points about the state of the nation and how it sees itself, from views on abortion and LGBTQ rights to QAnon and immigration… Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:01:04 EDT Daniel Schultz 2661041b-5b63-4da2-9f2b-088d171e44ac https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/25/do-they-even-read-bible-why-exposing-white-evangelical-hypocrisy-dead-end Almost every day I run across some version of this Twitter interaction: Original Tweet: Bible/Jesus/God says Comment: Haven’t you read ? Christians who purport to love the Bible never seem to read it! Examples of this phenomenon abound. If you’re… Tue, 25 Oct 2022 03:07:31 EDT Cavan Concannon 214e93d9-aefb-4fb3-8ba2-c73c0c71d3ab https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/30/evangelicalism-thrived-because-it-enabled-white-christians-avoid-civil-rights-movements In the course of his remarks to the Family Research Council’s “ Pray Vote Stand Summit ” on September 14, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler drew familiar lines on some hot button issues, warning his audience not to… Fri, 30 Sep 2022 01:22:54 EDT Eric C. Miller e1f1d138-6d05-406f-a84f-47a5571a6d57 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/12/supreme-court-effect-not-cause-hidden-century-long-funding-american-right In a bombshell story last month, the New York Times revealed that two years ago an obscure billionaire named Barre Seid gifted $1.6 billion to a conservative political power broker, while skirting as much as $400 million in taxes. The… Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:42:06 EDT Cavan Concannon, Jill Hicks-Keeton 97ed6e95-bfa9-4b9a-95b3-54ace59086fb https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/01/evangelicals-clutching-pearls-over-student-debt-relief-lord-have-mercy What with Ukraine , Mar-a-Lago , Jerome Powell, and what-not, I suppose we can be forgiven (ha!) if we didn’t pay a lot of attention to the gnashing of teeth over President Biden’s long-delayed decision to forgive a significant amount… Thu, 01 Sep 2022 05:48:44 EDT Peter Laarman 3b73d01a-fdea-49e6-a481-9d866d4834b3 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/10/despite-vastly-different-values-evangelical-hamilton-connects-secular-left-and-christian Last weekend, the Door Christian Fellowship Ministries in McAllen, Texas, mounted an unauthorized, unlicensed and “Christianized” production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton . The production took the opportunity to convert the narrative arc into a redemptive story in which… Wed, 10 Aug 2022 03:33:08 EDT Jake Johnson 1fb9661b-54c6-4516-8fea-ffc373daf7a8 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/07/25/unprecedented-anti-lgbtq-statement-orthodox-church-america-should-be-christian Late last week, the Orthodox Church in America , the second largest Orthodox church body in the country, issued an unprecedented statement seeking to silence any discussion about same-sex relationships and the sacramental inclusion of LGBTQ people in the life… Mon, 25 Jul 2022 01:48:17 EDT Katherine Kelaidis b2601e8b-1fe8-4244-9d67-42da4ea80245