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May 2021

May 16, 2021

Ancient Christian thinkers made a case for reparations that has striking relevance today

The biblical story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt is also a historical tale of...

April 2021

April 24, 2021

How Baptists hold differing views on the resurrection of Christ and why this matters

Some among the Baptist movement interpret the Resurrection as God’s response and commitment to liberating...

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 01, 2021

Why parts of Good Friday worship have been controversial

Prayers and symbols have the power to bind people together, writes a religion scholar, and...

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...

November 2020

November 22, 2020

What’s next for American evangelicals after Trump leaves office?

When Trump leaves the White House in January, many American evangelicals will feel that they've...

October 2020

October 13, 2020

Appealing to evangelicals, Trump uses religious words and references to God at a higher rate than previous presidents

Trump uses more religious terms in his set-piece addresses than any other president in the...

August 2020

August 24, 2020

Yes, God can be hurt, but not in the way Trump claims, according to theologians

Trump recently suggested that a vote for Biden would hurt God. Religion scholars explain what,...

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence

Religion was no barrier for Southern lynch mobs intent on terror. White pastors joined the...