Media
Essay
Losing Our Civil Religion
Trump’s unbridled rhetorical rampage has stripped the presidency of its moral ambition and authority.
By John D. Carlson
Essay
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
Essay
Breaking the Ten Commandments: A Short History of the Contentious American Monuments
Where once the biblical passages were an anchor of the nation’s identity, they have now become the stuff of controversy and even rupture.
By Jenna Weissman Joselit
Review
“Evangelical” Is Not a Political Term
Yet the temptation for those writing about evangelicals today is to allow the political part—like the fact that 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump—to stand in for the whole.
By Neil J. Young
Essay
Why I Went Back to Church
I owe it to my daughter, my father, and Donald Trump.
By Max Perry Mueller
Report
Leading Group for Church Abuse Victims Faces Uncertain Future
SNAP has endured a string of recent setbacks, including a lawsuit and two high-profile resignations.
By Lilly Fowler
Review
The New Christian Zionists
The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel & the Land Edited by Gerald R. McDermott InterVarsity, 2016 There is a joke that Israelis like …
By Dan Hummel
Report
The Book of Mormon Gets the Literary Treatment
At long last, the American Scripture is becoming literature.
By Grant Shreve
Excerpt
Recalling the Spiritual Vision of Robert Hayden, America’s First Black Poet Laureate
An adapted excerpt from Josef Sorett’s “Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics”
By Josef Sorett
Review
With “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Theocracy Arrives on the Small Screen
Margaret Atwood’s classic is fiction. But for countless women, its threats are real.
By Gordon Haber