It seems like not a day goes by when a reporter or political commentator declares why Trump has or has not won over the evangelical vote. Trump has been struggling with the voting bloc, many members…
The massacre of 49 individuals in an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12 has ignited a fierce and ongoing public debate about whether anti-LGBT laws and rhetoric lead to violence. Yesterday’s New York…
In the Atlantic this morning, Jonathan Merritt writes a bemused narrative of this week’s evangelical about-face as, one by one, the biggest names in conservative Christianity fall in line behind…
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…
Because of the outspoken opposition to Donald Trump by some of its leaders, and its call (in a resolution just passed at its annual meeting in St. Louis) for removal of the Confederate flags from…
What inspired you to write If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right? I really wanted to figure something out: what the surprising, strange, unexpected return…
The other day, I suggested that if we want to understand the future of the religious left, we ought to look to black and Hispanic communities. A new study from Indiana University’s School of Public…
In a short piece last week, I briefly discussed Trump’s social media war with Southern Baptist Russell Moore, who tweeted Old Testament prophecies at the presumptive Republican nominee while the…
Whenever you think about the principled Southern Baptist leaders opposing the ascension of America’s Problem Child to the GOP presidential nomination, think of this paragraph from an NPR report on…
