Exvangelical TikTokkers Aren’t a Sign of the End Times, But Here’s What Evangelicals Need to Understand About ‘The Falling Away’
On June 27, David Jeremiah, who sat on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board, preached a…
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Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism
After the Trump years and the January 6 insurrection, in which recognizably evangelical prayers and…
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How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones
Robert P. Jones is CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and…
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‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6
In the twentieth century the word “cult” (originally meaning “worship”) became a pejorative word that…
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Armed with New 2020 Election Data, What Should Democrats’ (Non-)Faith Outreach Look Like?
After delays in tabulation that resulted from holding an election under pandemic conditions, late last…
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Apocalypse Now and Then: How a Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics
In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are systematically making it more difficult to vote,…
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Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?
In 2012 James Carville was ecstatic on CNN as incumbent President Barack Obama had just…
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Where Did White Evangelicalism’s Hatred of Critical Race Theory Really Begin?
Critical Race Theory (CRT), the academic study in which students and scholars examine how race…
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We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization
As I noted previously here on RD, when it comes to covering American Christianity in…
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The Roots of White Evangelicalism’s Crisis Are in White Evangelical Churches, Not Republican Politics
In recent months, the Southern Baptist Convention has faced a steady stream of high-profile defections,…
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