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Articles by Tiffany Stanley

Essay
The Revival of the Old Religious Right
The obituary of the old-guard Religious Right has been written many times over. But then Donald Trump won, and overwhelming numbers of white Christians helped carry him to victory.
By Tiffany Stanley
Report
In the Age of Trump, Muslim Voters Mobilize
Equipped with burner phones and laptops, the volunteers took their seats. A dozen voices echoed around the Muslim community space in Alexandria, Virginia, as they …
By Tiffany Stanley
Interview
American Catholicism in Public Life: An Interview with Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Last month, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Catholic archbishop of New York, gave a public lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. It was a homecoming …
By Tiffany Stanley
Editor’s Note
For Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E., a Legacy of Hope and Resistance
Charleston is known as the holy city, for its many steeples and spires that tower above the landscape. On Wednesday night, a most unholy act …
By Tiffany Stanley
Interview
The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: An Interview with Charles Marsh
On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Christian theologian who opposed the Nazis, was hanged by the regime on the grounds of a concentration …
By Tiffany Stanley
Interview
Obama and the Paradoxes of Progressive Christianity: An Interview with James Kloppenberg
On March 27-29, scholars gathered in St. Louis, Missouri, at the Danforth Center on Religion & Politics for the conference “Beyond the Culture Wars: Recasting …
By Tiffany Stanley
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
The States Project
South Carolina
A Reporter Trails Nikki Haley and Mark Sanford.
By Tiffany Stanley
Essay
Why We Wait for a Non-European Pope
As Pope Benedict steps down this week, speculation stirs that the next pontiff could be a man of color or from outside Europe. And while …
By Tiffany Stanley
Interview
The Election By the Numbers: An Interview with Robert P. Jones
Robert P. Jones is the founding CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization that works at the intersection …
By Tiffany Stanley