Essay
Football and the Political Act of Prayer
In football, prayer is—and has always been—political.
By Paul PutzEssay
The Politics of Religious Freedom Under the Trump Administration
Democrats and Republicans have different conceptions of what religious freedom means and what it demands.
By Jacob LupferEssay
The Christian Nationalism of Donald Trump
The Christian debate over globalism and nationalism is nothing new.
By Gene ZubovichEssay
Southern Baptists, Gender Hierarchy, and the Road to Trump
Many Southern Baptists in the 1970s supported abortion rights and gender equality. What happened?
By Marie GriffithEssay
Evangelicals and Pentecostals Must Do More to Help Immigrants
They have become unmoored from any deep theological tradition regarding immigration. They need to develop a systematic response to state injustices.
By Arlene Sanchez-Walsh and Lloyd BarbaEssay
Sexual Purity, #ChurchToo, and the Crisis of Male Evangelical Leadership
In this unprecedented cultural moment, evangelical women are speaking out.
By Sara MoslenerEssay
The Mormon Church Grapples with its Global Identity and its Legacy on Race
This famously American faith makes an unprecedented effort to “reach out to the whole world.”
By Max Perry MuellerEssay
What Malcolm X Taught Me About Muslim America
The racialization of Islam has obscured both the diversity of Muslim America, and the tensions that accompany that diversity.
By Yasmine Flodin-AliEssay
Misremembering 1968
Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.
By Robert Greene IIEssay
New Documents Reveal How the FBI Deployed a Televangelist to Discredit Martin Luther King
Elder Michaux, a popular black evangelist, aided the bureau’s campaign to destroy King’s reputation.
By Lerone A. Martin