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July 2024

July 26, 2024

What Is Catholic Integralism?

Catholic Integralists believe that religious values – specifically Christian ones – should guide government policies....

July 16, 2024

Electing A Virtuous President Would Make Immunity Irrelevant

Presidential immunity can bring with it many risks. So how can we think about the...

January 2024

January 05, 2024

How religion and politics will mix in 2024

The 2024 elections may see a more intense end-times rhetoric, claims of divine support and...

December 2023

December 13, 2023

Mike Johnson represented a creationist museum in court

A scholar of American evangelicalism explains House Speaker Mike Johnson’s connections with Ark Encounter and...

October 2021

October 06, 2021

White Gen X and millennial evangelicals are losing faith in the conservative culture wars

Growing numbers of young evangelicals and 'Exvangelicals' are pro-LGBTQ, support #BlackLivesMatter – or are fed...

July 2021

July 08, 2021

Why choosing the next dalai lama will be a religious – as well as a political – issue

The current dalai lama was enthroned when he was about 4 years old. AP Photo

April 2021

April 22, 2021

How ‘complementarianism’ – the belief that God assigned specific gender roles – became part of evangelical doctrine

Complementarianism became central to evangelical belief in response to the feminist movement of the 1970s...

April 14, 2021

How the Supreme Court found its faith and put ‘religious liberty’ on a winning streak

Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh have bolstered the conservative wing of...

April 12, 2021

Faith in numbers: Trump held steady among believers at the ballot – it was the nonreligious vote he lost in 2020

Trump saw a decline in support among atheists, agnostics and voters not affiliated with any...

April 02, 2021

Christian nationalism is a barrier to mass vaccination against COVID-19

Christian nationalists are far less likely to be vaccinated than other groups, research has found....

February 2021

February 05, 2021

How the National Prayer Breakfast became an opportunity for presidents and faith leaders alike to push their political agendas

Joe Biden used the National Prayer Breakfast to call for unity amid 'dark, dark times.'...

January 2021

January 27, 2021

Think US evangelicals are dying out? Well, define evangelicalism …

The number of self-described evangelicals as a share of US population has held steady for...

January 08, 2021

In Mike Pence, US evangelicals had their ’24-karat-gold’ man in the White House

As Mike Pence prepares for life after the vice presidency, a scholar of religion looks...

January 06, 2021

The morality of feeling equal empathy for strangers and family alike

Feelings of empathy for others may be plentiful in a year of suffering. But is...

January 04, 2021

The psychology of fairness: Why some Americans don’t believe the election results

When a decision is made and people don't get the outcome they want, they often...

December 2020

December 07, 2020

How Hanukkah came to be an annual White House celebration

For much of American history, the only December holiday to be recognized in the White...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

How George Washington used his first Thanksgiving as president to unite a new country

In 1789, George Washington celebrated Thanksgiving by going to a poorly-attended church service, giving charity,...

November 23, 2020

60 years after JFK, Biden as second Catholic president offers a refresh in church’s political role

The US Catholic Church is more diverse and more divided than it was in JFK's...

November 01, 2020

The Black Church has been getting ‘souls to the polls’ for more than 60 years

By David D. Daniels III, McCormick Theological Seminary At Black churches up and down the...

October 2020

October 21, 2020

Beheading in France could bolster president’s claim that Islam is in ‘crisis’ – but so is French secularism

Macron wants to 'build an Islam in France that can be compatible with the Enlightenment.'...

October 08, 2020

Why is it so hard for atheists to get voted in to Congress?

Despite growing numbers of non-religious Americans, self-declared atheists are few and far between in the...