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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 Griffith

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 Barba

In this unprecedented cultural moment, evangelical women are speaking out.

By Sara Moslener

This famously American faith makes an unprecedented effort to “reach out to the whole world.”

By Max Perry Mueller

The racialization of Islam has obscured both the diversity of Muslim America, and the tensions that accompany that diversity.

By Yasmine Flodin-Ali

Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.

By Robert Greene II

Elder Michaux, a popular black evangelist, aided the bureau’s campaign to destroy King’s reputation.

By Lerone A. Martin

Even a less-than-ideal leader can be influenced by the right women in “such a time as this.”

By Emily Johnson

The preacher has died at the age of 99.

By Steven P. Miller

How immigrants are influenced by, and in turn shape, American evangelicalism

By Prema Kurien