Evangelical
Interview
The Intellectual Civil War within Evangelicalism: An Interview with Molly Worthen
Last month, Molly Worthen traveled to the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics to take part in a symposium for the inaugural Danforth …
By Tiffany Stanley
Excerpt
Religious Leaders to Government: We Must Get Our Fiscal House In Order
Both Republicans and Democrats have a religion problem, and it has nothing to do with same-sex marriage, abortion, or religious liberty. Rather, their serious stumbling …
By Jim Wallis
Report
Evangelical Ketubah, Messianic Mezuzah: Judaica for Christians
Carrie Love is a self-professed “Scripture nerd.” Raised in an evangelical church in Louisiana, she now lives in Manhattan where she works at an educational …
By Hillary Kaell
The Table
Why My Church Avoids Taking Political Positions
It’s surprisingly tempting for pastors like me to devalue, of all things, Jesus. I was in a conversation just the other day with an awesome, …
By Dave Schmelzer
Report
How Shall We Care for Haiti’s Orphans?
Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Just days after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, Chris Savini, then a mental health worker, heard from …
By Emily Brennan
Report
Can There Be a Religious Response to Planned Parenthood’s Critics?
On most days, when she arrives at the Planned Parenthood clinic she directs in Washington, D.C., Dr. Laura Meyers passes through a wall of Operation …
By Mara Willard
Review
To Be Straight, Thin, and “Healthy”
Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical AmericaBy Lynne GerberUniversity of Chicago Press, 2011 Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed …
By Amy Frykholm
Report
Can Obama Win the Latino Protestant Vote?
After John Kerry’s loss to George W. Bush in 2004, I attended at a day-long seminar at the home of Arianna Huffington called “Rebranding the …
By Gastón Espinosa
Report
Pastor on Pulpit Freedom Sunday: “Why I Cannot Support Barack Obama for President”
It was raining, and chilly, when Hope Christian Church celebrated Pulpit Freedom Sunday this past weekend. Some 150 congregants gathered for the special 8 a.m. …
By Tiffany Stanley
The States Project
Colorado: A Scholar Drives Through a Swing State
A Scholar Drives Through a Swing State.
By Paul Harvey