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Jacob Lupfer is a faith and politics writer. A contributing editor at Religion News Service, Jacob is a frequent commentator on the role of faith in politics and public life. He is a doctoral candidate in political science at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. An expert on the institutional life of American Christianity, Jacob advises faith leaders on how religions people and institutions can more effectively advocate for the common good. During the 2016 election cycle, Jacob is blogging at Patheos about the role of faith in the campaign. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Religion & Politics, Sojourners, Religion Dispatches, The Christian Post, Baptist News Global, and elsewhere. Jacob lives near Baltimore with his wife and their two young children.

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Trump promises to boost church attendance. Can he...

This is one of the most idiotic, incoherent ramblings I saw from... read more

For all the saints who from their labors...

Some art embodies transcendence and expresses human longing in objectively more beautiful... read more

The Reformation: Looking back (and forward) 500 years

What is the Protestant Reformation's continuing relevance in our public and private... read more

Stop sharing fake news and internet garbage

Let's dispense with the fiction that you must wade through racism and... read more

A snapshot of the religion vote

If you want to explain vote choice, you are largely telling a... read more

Consider this: Only 45% of U.S. evangelicals actually...

What if we identified evangelicals by whether or not survey respondents affirm... read more

On Trump-supporting evangelicals' critiques of 'Never Trump' elites

Yesterday, I noted an item from Sunday's Louisville Courier-Journal that caught my... read more

Blowback for evangelical leaders who oppose Trump

White evangelicals have been conditioned to vote Republican as a matter of... read more

Who is Wayne Grudem? Does his Trump endorsement...

The lesson here is that some leading evangelicals are objectively bad at... read more

The religious right isn't dead. But it is...

Most atheists, church/state separation advocates, and conservative Christians themselves think evangelical Republicanism... read more

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