How to Talk to a Trump Evangelical at Christmas
Many Americans remain discouraged or angry about the presidential election. Those gathering around the tree this holiday season with evangelical family may feel particularly bewildered.
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Was it the Russians or God? Evangelical Leaders Working Out the Kinks with Trump’s Transition Picks
The CIA has now concluded that Russian intervention was designed not just to undermine faith in American democratic processes, but also to tip the election specifically in Trump’s favor.
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Should Evangelical Trump Critics Leave The Movement? Who Cares?
Inside, outside, who cares? Wear the Evangelical label, don’t wear it, it doesn’t really matter.
Read MoreMeet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right
It may not be your father’s Christian right, with new players and new tactics, but it’s still the Christian right and it’s more empowered than its been since the glory days of Ronald Reagan.
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“Man of Steel” Brings Muscular Message to Oppose Right-to-Die Legislation
Hanson is a tempting spokesperson for the anti-aid-in-dying movement because he represents its “traditional” family values, a nostalgic view of male independence and dominance within an idealized conception of nuclear families.
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Shades of Christian Reconstructionism in Trump Education Pick, Betsy DeVos
Education is arguably the most important front in the battle to bring the Kingdom of God to bear on contemporary culture.
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Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights
If you have the privilege of being able to “wait and see” how the Trump administration comes after your family, please use that safety to speak out.
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The Gaines Brouhaha, BuzzFeed’s Gift to the Religious Right’s Martyr-Making Machinery
Churchgoers have all kinds of reasons for choosing to worship where they do and that’s a zone of privacy that should generally be respected.
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Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump
To many, Catholic support for Trump feels like a repudiation of the Catholic social justice tradition.
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Re-branding Is Not the Cure: Campolo & Claiborne Miss the Core Problem in Evangelicalism
There certainly was a time when leading evangelicals railed against money grubbing and corporate domination, but that time is long past.
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