Evangelical

How White Supremacy Infected Christianity and the Republican Party

Columnist Jennifer Rubin discusses the findings of Robert P. Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute, presented in his new book, that elements of evangelical theology are strongly supportive of hierarchy and inequality. 

The Impact of White Evangelicals on U.S. Politics (Audio)

Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez argues in "Jesus and John Wayne" that contemporary Evangelical political views are a product of the group's embrace of patriarchal authority and power, a situation that will not end when Trump leaves office. 

White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

At an earlier point in American history, some Christian theologians went so far as to argue that the enslavement of human beings was justifiable from a biblical point of view.

The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response

by Katherine Stewart

Trump’s response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies.

The Cult of the Shining City Embraces the Plague

by Jared Yates Sexton

Those who see Trump as a messianic figure believe the coronavirus will put a fallen world right again.

Survey: White Evangelicals See Trump As 'Honest' And 'Morally Upstanding'

White evangelicals in the United States, the core of President Donald Trump's political base, have far more positive views of his personal conduct and character than other U.S. adults.

The evangelical slippery slope, from Ronald Reagan to Roy Moore

by Randall Balmer

After Reagan (who was divorced) evangelicals stopped talking about divorce.  After Trump and Roy Moore they can’t talk about sexual assault.