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Essay
Donald Trump and the Evangelical Political Schism
During the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, several high-profile evangelical leaders quietly expressed their support for Donald Trump, adding to the more fervent and public …
By Mark Valeri
Essay
Can Hillary Clinton’s Faith Help Her Lead a Fractured Nation?
Last month, at a closed meeting with evangelical leaders, Donald Trump asserted his Christian bona fides. He boasted of his child-rearing practices, touted the virtues …
By Kristin Du Mez
Essay
It Starts with the Stop
The police-involved shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in a Minneapolis suburb have reignited the national focus on police brutality …
By Leah Gunning Francis
Essay
Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and Black Christian Women’s Spirituality
In her book, Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith, Marla Frederick chronicles Black women’s participation in the church and development of spirituality …
By Candice Benbow
Review
To Serve God and Mammon
The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream by Chris Lehmann Melville House, 2016 Last year, the aptly named Pastor Creflo Dollar, …
By Gordon Haber
Report
The Dangerous Faith of a Notorious Drug Lord
Nothing and no one will make me change: not even the lies or the rumors that are said against me. I have decided to …
By Alfredo Garcia
Essay
At BYU, a New Confrontation in the Campus Sexual Assault Debates
The process for adjudicating sexual assault cases on college campuses has sparked widespread debate across the country. A new dimension of those conversations, involving a …
By Kristine Haglund
Essay
Remembering Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016): Priest, Poet, and Pacifist
Daniel Berrigan, the radical priest who helped to redefine what it means to be a Roman Catholic in post-Vatican II America, died on April 30 …
By Shawn F. Peters
Essay
The Paradoxes of Ted Cruz
By almost any reckoning, Ted Cruz’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination presents voters with a paradox—several paradoxes, actually. The senator from Texas styles himself …
By Randall Balmer
Essay
Is God Dead? A TIME Cover Turns 50
On Good Friday in April 1966, fifty years ago this month, Time magazine published its famously controversial cover story, “Is God Dead?” Placing that stark …
By Leigh Eric Schmidt