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This year’s electorate resembles a presidential cycle as much as a midterm. So it might be helpful to compare 2018 both to previous midterms and to 2016.

Eighty-five percent of American Jews vote. In this fraught moment of broad political tensions and razor-thin margins, those votes become even more important.

The white nationalism of the Tea Party and Trump represents an “authentic” expression of the main spiritual current in American history, which is about subjugation and supremacy and greed.

“Would they be as understanding of a fictional show that used a real mosque as the HQ of a terrorist cell? A fictional Blood Libel tale implicating real world Jews?”

Even as many white evangelical women speak about traditionally liberal topics, they refuse to openly discuss America’s deep political divides.

It’s not hard to extend the bishops’ logic on discrimination against LGBTQ foster parents to the assertion that Christian social services agencies shouldn’t be “discriminated” against for refusing to work with Jews and Muslims.

Evangelicals—and those who are strongly invested in a “respectable” image for evangelicalism—now seem to be making a concerted effort to push back ahead of the midterm elections.

White evangelical Protestants have the dubious distinction of turning the blindest eye among religious groups to systemic racism in police brutality against Black men.

Throughout our history there have been moral panics about the dangers posed by people from disparate religious, ethnic, and political backgrounds.

Inviting a messianic Jew to say a prayer for the victims of the worst act of anti-Semitic violence in American history is like sprinkling bacon bits on an eff-you sandwich.