White Evangelicals Support Trump in Tremendous Numbers
“White evangelicals: you’ve decisively proven that you love your whiteness more than you love your black & brown brothers & sisters in Christ.”
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New PRRI Survey Shows White Evangelicals Will Be “Left Behind”
74 percent of white evangelical Protestants believe that American culture has changed for the worse since 1950.
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Have White Evangelicals Become More Accepting of Candidates’ Personal Immorality, as New Data Suggests?
In a recent survey, 72 percent of white evangelicals said immorality wasn’t a detriment to being a good public servant.
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White Conservative Christian America Not Going Down Without a Fight
A vortex of news stories concerning the upcoming GOP convention, platform, and Trump coronation—placed together…
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Trump’s Evangelical Support in the Gut, not the Theology
Pundits rely far too much on what we say and they miss the deeper picture.
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How “White Christianity” Beat Academic Freedom at Wheaton
As a fellow—make that sister—tenured black woman, I feel a particular kinship with Dr. Larycia…
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Big White Evangelical Turnout for Midterms
Last night’s results show that pollster Robert Jones was far, far too optimistic about the…
Read MoreWill Declining Numbers of White Evangelicals Change the Senate?
Try to make sense of this puzzle: white evangelicals, as a percentage of the American…
Read MoreNew Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics
A new poll out today from the Pew Research Center finds an increasing number of…
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Why Jason Collins’ Faith is Ignored… And Tebow’s Isn’t
The faith of Jason Collins, who recently came out as the first gay athlete in a major American sport, doesn’t fit the model of culture war conflicts the media expects and the religious right demands of its spokespeople.
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