Elections
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
Excerpt
The Decline of White Christian America
For most of the twentieth century, in White Christian America the terms “Christian” and “Protestant” were virtually synonymous. Questions like “And where do you go …
By Robert P. Jones
Essay
Orlando: A Lament
Like most people on the East Coast, I got the first news in the blur of waking on Sunday morning. I checked my email for …
By Mark D. Jordan
Editor’s Note
Orlando Shooting: An Attack at the Center of America’s Fault Lines
First, the sorrow. Then, the fury. Next, what? Countless Americans, across our political divides, experience stages one and two after a massacre such as …
By Marie Griffith
Interview
When Being Pro-Life Did Not Mean Being Conservative
For those who have come of age in the so-called millennial generation, the alliance between conservative Republicanism and “pro-life” activism is accepted without question. Indeed, …
By Eric C. Miller
Essay
North Carolina’s HB2 and the Shifting Battle over LGBT Rights
In March, in a special session that cost taxpayers $42,000, the North Carolina legislature met and passed, after just nine hours of deliberations that included …
By Kent L. Brintnall
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
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
Essay
The Democratic Virtue of Losing
Easter, which began yesterday and extends until Pentecost, provides an occasion for Christians to meditate on the consummate paradox at the heart of their faith. …
By John D. Carlson