Evangelical
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Interview
The Intellectual Civil War within Evangelicalism: An Interview with Molly Worthen
Last month, Molly Worthen traveled to the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics to take part in a symposium for the inaugural Danforth …
By Tiffany Stanley![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/JimWallis-584x380-257x208.jpg)
Excerpt
Religious Leaders to Government: We Must Get Our Fiscal House In Order
Both Republicans and Democrats have a religion problem, and it has nothing to do with same-sex marriage, abortion, or religious liberty. Rather, their serious stumbling …
By Jim Wallis![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/JewsJesus.Getty-584-x-380-257x208.jpg)
Report
Evangelical Ketubah, Messianic Mezuzah: Judaica for Christians
Carrie Love is a self-professed “Scripture nerd.” Raised in an evangelical church in Louisiana, she now lives in Manhattan where she works at an educational …
By Hillary Kaell![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Churchsign.GettyImages_83545366-584-x-3803-257x208.jpg)
The Table
Why My Church Avoids Taking Political Positions
It’s surprisingly tempting for pastors like me to devalue, of all things, Jesus. I was in a conversation just the other day with an awesome, …
By Dave Schmelzer![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Haiti-GettyImages_96732219-584-x-380-257x208.jpg)
Report
How Shall We Care for Haiti’s Orphans?
Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Just days after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, Chris Savini, then a mental health worker, heard from …
By Emily Brennan![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/GettyImages_111837906-584-x-380-257x208.jpg)
Report
Can There Be a Religious Response to Planned Parenthood’s Critics?
On most days, when she arrives at the Planned Parenthood clinic she directs in Washington, D.C., Dr. Laura Meyers passes through a wall of Operation …
By Mara Willard![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1017-Frykholm-Gerber-584-x-380-257x208.jpg)
Review
To Be Straight, Thin, and “Healthy”
Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical AmericaBy Lynne GerberUniversity of Chicago Press, 2011 Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed …
By Amy Frykholm![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1001-Espinoza-LatinosForObama-257x208.jpg)
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![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/GettyImages_51489802-584-x-380-257x208.jpg)
Report
Pastor on Pulpit Freedom Sunday: “Why I Cannot Support Barack Obama for President”
It was raining, and chilly, when Hope Christian Church celebrated Pulpit Freedom Sunday this past weekend. Some 150 congregants gathered for the special 8 a.m. …
By Tiffany Stanley![](https://religionandpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1003-Harvey-ColorfulColorado-257x208.jpg)
The States Project
Colorado: A Scholar Drives Through a Swing State
A Scholar Drives Through a Swing State.
By Paul Harvey