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Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians

By Bradley Onishi

…support. Problem solved. A decade later, that zero-sum logic still drives evangelical politics. Many friends and colleagues have asked me when evangelicals will stop supporting Trump. My answer: when he reverts back to being pro-choice. The abortion trump card is the evangelical Trump card. The affairs with porn stars, the stunning lack of empathy and leadership (golfing instead of spending time with families of Parkland victims), the dog-whistle…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…re’s no doubt it has occasioned spirited debate and real soul searching in evangelical circles. The anti-Trump evangelical movement has been robust and active for several months now, doing everything it can to undercut Trump’s standing among evangelical voters, rally behind his opponents, and celebrate any of his political setbacks. That’s why the near-total silence among anti-Trump evangelicals over his trouncing in Utah yesterday seems so odd. Y…

Evangelical Author on Why Christian Conservatives Supported Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…issues that I raise in the book. He got 81 percent of the vote from white evangelicals, and now evangelicals of color are looking at their white co-religionists and saying, Well I guess it didn’t matter to you that he was making those racist statements. I guess it didn’t matter to you that he has these feelings about Mexicans, Muslims, African Americans, etc. So I don’t know that white evangelicals were supportive of his racism, but it certainly…

Opposition To DADT Repeal And The High Rate Of Evangelical Chaplains

By Sarah Posner

…ry Alliance. Because so many churches cannot be comfortably categorized as evangelical or nonevangelical, and because so many enlistees identify themselves simply as “Christian,” it is difficult to ascertain cumulative numbers. Military officials say the government is not promoting the change in the chaplain corps. Instead religious leaders who recruit for the military attribute it to factors including the general shortage of Catholic priests, the…

Inside the Rubio-Cruz Battle for Evangelical Voters

By Sarah Posner

…ding evangelical critic of Barton, calls the claim that Cruz is leading in evangelical endorsements “Christian astroturf.” Pro-Rubio evangelicals, said Thomas Kidd, a historian at Baylor University and a member of the Rubio campaign’s Religious Liberty Advisory Board, “tend to be younger and more cautious about the Christian Right’s excesses during the Moral Majority era.” (Kidd says he hasn’t formally endorsed Rubio, “but I have a favorable view…

The Suppression of Sin in Evangelical Abolitionism: The Wilberforce Problem

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…is lawless and underground, which makes it even harder to stop. Enter the Evangelicals For some time, young evangelicals—typically those of a progressive bent who soured on the culture wars of their parents’ generation—have been among the most ardent abolitionists. In her definitive essay on the topic, “The Sexual Politics of the ‘New Abolitionism,’” Elizabeth Bernstein notices that, “some of the most prominent anti-trafficking activists in quest…

There’s Just One Problem With Upcoming Evangelical Summit on Sexual Violence

By Dianna Anderson

…d sinful (e.g., making out on a first date that turns into assault). These evangelical pastors, gathering at an evangelical college, are simply not equipped to do the work of overturning decades of theology and culture that have created silence around rape, abuse, and harassment. Without experts who understand the theology and its role in silencing rape victims, and a willingness to listen to those experts, the church will continue to lack the too…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…Publishing: Home of Books Fanning Fear of Islam.” ++++++++++ The Religious Left Early next month, Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America, a collection of 19 essays by 22 authors, that challenges the Religious Left to re-envision and reinvent itself will be published. Last week Religion Dispatches ran an exclusive interview with Frederick Clarkson, the book’s editor. According to Clarkson, “the book is divid…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…ound and springboard for world conquest in the name of Christ. In that the evangelical left and right agree: from Wallis to Dobson, they all believe that God is on their side; they may differ on precise issues but they all believe in some form of American exceptionalism. The reason for this is that intellectually lazy political players of the kind who lead the evangelical movement crave power, or to be close to power, just like the people who run…

In Speech to White Evangelical Broadcasters, Trump Lays Out his White Christian Nationalist Vision

By Robert P. Jones

…lks of himself as a savior figure who is being indicted on behalf of white evangelical Christians. I’m a very proud Christian, actually. I’ve been very busy fighting and, you know, taking the, the bullets, taking the arrows. I’m taking ’em for you. And I’m so honored to take ’em. You have no idea. I’m being indicted for you…. Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communist, and fascists indict me. I consider it a great badge of honor. I…