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August 2017

August 07, 2017

Evangelicals and the Trump train

Are they driving it? Will they be rolled over by it? Or are they just...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

How the ERLC became the premier evangelical public-policy organization

In recent years, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has distinguished itself as the...

December 2016

December 20, 2016

Russell Moore: A prophet without honor?

I observe evangelical politics as a scholar, a journalist, and (occasionally) an activist. I am...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

How HGTV’s Chip & Joanna Gaines can avoid Duck Dynasty’s fate

If the Gaineses' only crime is believing what most Christians have believed for 20 centuries,...

November 07, 2016

Trump campaign ad played in churches played Nov. 6

A number of Christian worshippers began their Sunday with an exhortation to vote for Donald...

November 07, 2016

The message ‘Never Trump’ evangelicals are (not) sending the GOP

"We’ll back in two years. And every two years thereafter.”

November 06, 2016

Trump promises to boost church attendance. Can he make Sunday school great again?

This is one of the most idiotic, incoherent ramblings I saw from Trump during the...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

On Trump-supporting evangelicals’ critiques of ‘Never Trump’ elites

Yesterday, I noted an item from Sunday's Louisville Courier-Journal that caught my attention. It was...

October 24, 2016

Blowback for evangelical leaders who oppose Trump

White evangelicals have been conditioned to vote Republican as a matter of course for 35...

October 19, 2016

Who is Wayne Grudem? Does his Trump endorsement matter?

The lesson here is that some leading evangelicals are objectively bad at thinking about politics,...

October 19, 2016

The religious right isn’t dead. But it is changing

Most atheists, church/state separation advocates, and conservative Christians themselves think evangelical Republicanism will be alive...

October 14, 2016

#NeverTrump evangelicals: 2016’s game changers?

By repudiating Trump, evangelicals can do the right thing and improve the integrity of their...

October 12, 2016

Why #NeverTrump evangelicals may not matter much in 2016

Never-Trump evangelicals could be politically consequential. But people who are excited by this development tend...

October 11, 2016

Protestant confessionalism and Trump’s evangelical support

People whose faith lives are animated by active beliefs in robust theological ideas will accede...

October 09, 2016

Religious right to Trump: Grab us by the p***y

Their only shred of relevance is their place in journalists' Rolodexes. Reporters should just stop...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

Falwell and Jeffress defend Trump on Hannity

Let's face it: Trump's top evangelical supporters have beclowned themselves.

August 2016

August 31, 2016

Jerry Falwell, Jr. needs an intervention

I don't know of a single Liberty professor who has publicly stated that Falwell's ill-considered...

August 23, 2016

Trump’s stunning admission about his evangelical support

I still can't believe he said this.

August 19, 2016

Trump campaign hires religious outreach director

Can Pam Pryor turn out enough white Christians to make Trump victorious in November?

August 12, 2016

Why Jeb Bush’s faith outreach failed

Maybe Jeb! was just too decent and compassionate for the Religious Right.

August 02, 2016

Are religious right leaders Dobson, Falwell and Reed “cheap dates” — or worse?

I've resisted calling them "whores." But the "cheap date" metaphor for religious right leaders supporting...

August 01, 2016

Another respected evangelical defects to Trump

A Harvard-educated evangelical professor of Christian ethics argues that voting for Trump is a morally...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Typical pro-life Republican response to Democrats’ appeals

Even if Democrats think they can appeal to conservative evangelicals, they'll have to overcome this...

July 11, 2016

Trump Vets Abortion Rights Supporter for VP

I wonder what social conservatives think of their nominee and their party seriously considering putting...

July 07, 2016

The Theology of Trump: Strength and Power

Donald Trump embodies a theology that elevates strength and power. Evangelical leader Peter Wehner argues...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Trump Finally Comments on SCOTUS Abortion Opinion

Just as it took Jesus three days to rise from the dead, the presumptive GOP...

June 27, 2016

Who Led Donald Trump to Faith in Christ?

Religious right stalwart James Dobson said last week that Donald Trump had recently become a...

June 25, 2016

James Dobson Says Trump Was Recently Born Again

Convincing conservative ideologues that his conversion was authentic was a pretty impressive con, even by...

June 22, 2016

Not Every Evangelical at Trump’s Meeting Supports Him

This sounds to me like someone who knows in his heart Trump is an embarrassment...

June 21, 2016

5 Takeaways from Trump’s ‘Conversation’ with Faith Leaders

As politics and religion observers make sense of one of the most momentous faith stories...

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