Elections
Interview
How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics: An Interview with R. Marie Griffith
In her new book, “Moral Combat,” Griffith offers a sweeping history of how American Christians have debated sex over the last century.
By The EditorsReport
To Address Suicide, Minister Challenges Accepted Views of Guns Among Believers
Rev. Rob Schenck has ministered to conservative Christians for decades. Now he is preaching about the ethical implication of firearms.
By Josh M. ShepherdReport
Fifty Years Later, Religious Progressives Launch a New Poor People’s Campaign
Can they articulate an American liberation theology for the Trump era?
By Michael SchulsonReview
The Supernatural Pseudoscience of Nazi Germany
A review of Eric Kurlander’s “Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich”
By Michael SchulsonEssay
The Role of Sports Ministries in the NFL Protests
A number of black athletes are fueling their activism with Christian faith.
By Paul PutzEssay
Losing Our Civil Religion
Trump’s unbridled rhetorical rampage has stripped the presidency of its moral ambition and authority.
By John D. CarlsonEssay
How the State Department Has Sidelined Religion’s Role in Diplomacy
Gone are the days when the United States had the capacity to understand lived religion in almost any part of the world.
By Shaun CaseyEssay
Charlottesville, Exodus, and the Politics of Nostalgia
We may never reach the Promised Land, but we will become a better nation by remaining on the journey.
By Rachel WheelerEditor’s Note
White Christians Must Condemn White Supremacy
To be silent or to engage in false equivalencies is to be complicit in the growth of this noxious fascism.
By Marie GriffithEssay
How One Purist Tried to Save the Religious Right from the Republicans
Then, as now, the movement largely chose relevance, thinking it was better to be a power player accused of hypocrisy than to be uncompromised, but irrelevant.
By Daniel Silliman