south carolina

What inspired you to write Talking to the Dead? I vividly recall the experiences that sparked the book. When I was an undergraduate, I was a history major and had read some books about South Carolina…

Across South Carolina—and indeed the country—voters attend tiny churches, Bible studies, and prayer meetings. Their collective views on the candidates are much more difficult to measure and assess. And while they may be consumers of Christian talk radio, or televangelism, or other religious media, they are not lock-step followers of the decisions of elites who met at a ranch in Texas, or of Jim Bob Duggar, or of anything but their own received revelation.

New data tracks role of religion in the race.

At AME church in Columbia, SC, Gingrich just doesn’t get it.

In a state where it’s almost required to have a Christian-themed bumper sticker the legislature approved an “I believe” vanity plate. A federal judge has just deemed it unconstitutional.