A Test for Trump—And the Religious Right
Last night the Family Research Council announced that Donald Trump would, after all, be speaking…
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How the Christian Right Can Save America from Donald Trump
A few days ago, I predicted that Donald Trump’s love affair with evangelicals will be…
Read MoreIs Marriage Equality the New “Scopes” Moment? Sort of…
Is same-sex marriage the new evolution? I was prompted to think about this seemingly bizarre…
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Why SBC’s Russell Moore Wants Conservative Evangelicals to Be Nicer
In the 1970s, conservative evangelicals declared themselves defenders of the American way and protectors of…
Read MoreHow Donald Trump Has Exposed Rifts in the Religious Right
I went on vacation for two weeks, during which Donald Trump continued to be Donald…
Read MoreImmigrant-Bashing, Indifference, and the Evangelical Vote
Two prominent evangelicals penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week, asserting that…
Read MoreFake Gay Panic News Fools Christians
Christians are just too gullible. That’s the message from Ed Stetzer, writing at Christianity Today,…
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Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts
If you’ve been following the story of Christianity in the United States with any degree of…
Read MoreSouthern Baptists Are Like Jews During WWII? Ronnie Floyd Makes a Ridiculous Analogy
SBC’s Ronnie Floyd name-drops Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian he appears to know nothing at all about.
Read MoreIn Wake of Eric Garner Case, Southern Baptist Leader Rips Racism in the Church
After the failure yesterday of a grand jury to indict the New York police officer who…
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