Elections
Editor’s Note
The Best of R&P’s Election Coverage
Did you miss any of R&P’s campaign coverage? To mark this November 6th, we bring you our favorite election-themed articles since our launch six months …
By The Editors
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
Report
The Sunday Before the Election
In the days before the 2012 general election, we dispatched writers from around the country to attend houses of worship from California to Connecticut. They …
By The Editors
Essay
Is 2012 America’s “Catholic Moment?”
For many politicos and pundits, Mitt Romney’s ascendancy to the top of Republican presidential ticket has marked the high point—so far—of the much-hyped “Mormon Moment.” …
By David Gibson
Report
Black Churches Send “Souls to the Polls”
JACKSONVILLE, Florida. – On Sunday afternoon, a local television reporter pushed her way through the crowd of voters toward Bishop Edward Robinson. She pleaded for …
By Jeff Brumley
The States Project
Iowa: A Pastor’s Son Notes When Politics Came to the Pulpit
A Pastor’s Son Notes When Politics Came to the Pulpit.
By Randall Balmer
Essay
Post-Racial America? The Tangle of Race, Religion, and Citizenship
The election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States brought questions about race in America to the forefront of political and social …
By Judith Weisenfeld
Interview
Training the Next Generation of Interfaith Leaders: An Interview with Eboo Patel
Even over the phone, Eboo Patel projects a youthful energy. This may come from his many hours spent talking to college students at universities around …
By Kip Richardson
The States Project
Mississippi: A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken
A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken.
By Alison Collis Greene
Report
Can Obama Win the Latino Protestant Vote?
After John Kerry’s loss to George W. Bush in 2004, I attended at a day-long seminar at the home of Arianna Huffington called “Rebranding the …
By Gastón Espinosa