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January 2017

January 18, 2017

Of course the National Cathedral should participate in Trump’s inauguration

Critics rightly point out that Trump is obnoxious and unchristian. But the Washington National Cathedral...

January 17, 2017

Six faith leaders to read scripture, pray at Trump’s inauguration

Faith leaders, including some Trump critics, will pray at the inauguration: Samuel Rodriguez, Timothy Dolan,...

January 16, 2017

Progressive faith leaders fête Obama in new book

Last Thursday at the National Press Club, I was fortunate to witness a blessed gathering...

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...

December 12, 2016

Is Trump’s election filling mainline Protestant pews?

Liberal Protestants want to believe that they are seeing something more than just usual seasonal...

November 2016

November 14, 2016

Trump-supporting vandals desecrate churches with homophobic, racist slurs

Every American should condemn and deplore desecration of our people's sacred spaces.

November 08, 2016

My 2016 presidential election prediction

If I could change this, I might put Arizona, Ohio, and possibly Iowa in play...

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 30, 2016

Stop sharing fake news and internet garbage

Let's dispense with the fiction that you must wade through racism and lies to find...

October 27, 2016

A snapshot of the religion vote

If you want to explain vote choice, you are largely telling a story about demographic...

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 17, 2016

A note on ‘confessional’ evangelicals in the 2016 election

People who are rooted in robust theological traditions are less susceptible to Trumpism than are...

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...

October 04, 2016

Will the VP debate address faith issues?

The narrative comes across like this: The VP candidates are religious men, talking easily and...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

First presidential debate mostly neglects faith and religion

But don't despair. We still have two more debates to endure.

September 26, 2016

2016 Hofstra debate faith & religion liveblog

Debate liveblog

September 22, 2016

Trump’s new conservative Catholic advisory council

The Trump campaign, beset by an flurry of articles and commentaries suggesting the New York...

September 19, 2016

Millennials stand with Clinton over Trump

But they're not as strongly pro-choice as you probably think.

September 14, 2016

Falwell and Jeffress defend Trump on Hannity

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

September 12, 2016

Twitter users expertly mock Trump’s faux Christianity

Blessed are the poor? Sad!

September 10, 2016

Trump’s gospel

These are pretty funny.

September 08, 2016

#Faith2016 news roundup: Trump’s Catholic problem

Clinton's success depends in part on winning back white Catholics who have drifted to the...

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