Last week’s historic verdict is worth rehearsing. On May 30, Donald J. Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a crime. Twelve ordinary citizens unanimously found Trump guilty on 34…
Imagine my embarrassment when I heard from the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s media relations director that I had made a fundamental error in my Feb. 27 article about the SBC’s…
Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention voted during a plenary session to disfellowship six of its nearly 50,000 member churches. One was ousted due to its “lack of intent to cooperate in resolving…
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…
The following kicks off RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All subsequent posts can be found here. - eds 9/14/2022 Evening The Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand…
A recent article by conservative watchdog Campus Reform targeted my collaborative research talk on racial justice work in and as Buddhist practice . The talk traced the multiple ways whiteness has…
Critical Race Theory (CRT), the academic study in which students and scholars examine how race and racism function, is under attack by conservatives who claim that CRT promotes a distorted view of…
There’s a reason Tim Keller, Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in New York, enjoys a greater degree of public respect than many conservative evangelical leaders who clearly crave…
Are conservative, mostly white evangelicals, finally losing control of their narrative in the public sphere, where Christian supremacist assumptions have up to now led to the effective silencing of ex…
I grew up in the white evangelical community, surrounded by individuals who became Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters. Although numerous factors motivated support in this community, one bears…