“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election
November 8th was, for so many of us, the death knell for any claim white evangelicals as a group had on caring for “the least of these.”
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This initiative aimed to take a fresh look at Christianity’s increasingly diverse expression in the United States. As the monochromatic paradigm of American Christianity fades, this initiative explored how people came together in new ways to express their beliefs, effect social justice, and find community in structures we may not yet recognize as “church.”
The Semiotics of Trump: All the Cool Kids Are Doing It
When I saw Trump bumper stickers on the backpacks of middle-class white kids in Tidewater,…
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White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenters”
Some conservative Christian leaders are challenging the statistic that 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump.
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To White Evangelicals, a Long Overdue Dear John Letter
After years of mutual suspicion, disagreements about leadership, and public fights, we have shut the door on our decade-long relationship.
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Watching 81% of My White Brothers and Sisters Vote For Trump Has Broken Something in Me
“Something has been broken for me; a fragile hope that the work of racial and gender justice will be embraced by the larger church.”
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Rising to Heaven in a Secular Rapture: Trump’s Golden Promises
An interview with sociologist Arlie Hochschild on her years in Tea Party territory.
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White Christian Nostalgia Strikes Back
The demographic changes happening in America will not reverse themselves, no matter what the bellicose rhetoric coming from the White House might say.
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Did the “Real America” Elect Trump?
“We, as a culture, have to stop infantilizing and deifying rural and white working-class Americans.”
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Trump Support Will Harm Catholic Church in America
White Catholics voted for Trump at 52 percent to the 45 percent they gave Hillary Clinton.
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Might, Right, and White Privilege: It’s Morning in America, the Sequel
Religious people don’t vote based on a candidate’s support of the Ten Commandments; they support candidates who promise to inch the world closer to their own vision of what should be.
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