Sexuality & Gender
Essay
The Politics of Religious Freedom Under the Trump Administration
Democrats and Republicans have different conceptions of what religious freedom means and what it demands.
By Jacob Lupfer
Report
A Kind of Homelessness: Evangelicals of Color in the Trump Era
“A lot of folks are saying that ‘If this is what evangelical means, then I’m not that.’ So we are becoming spiritually homeless.”
By Melani McAlister
Interview
The Salvation of Langston Hughes: A Conversation with Wallace Best
The religious dimensions of his work deserve exploration.
By Josef Sorett
Essay
Southern Baptists, Gender Hierarchy, and the Road to Trump
Many Southern Baptists in the 1970s supported abortion rights and gender equality. What happened?
By Marie Griffith
Essay
Sexual Purity, #ChurchToo, and the Crisis of Male Evangelical Leadership
In this unprecedented cultural moment, evangelical women are speaking out.
By Sara Moslener
Review
Christian Ethicist Says to Trust Women on Abortion
A review of Rebecca Todd Peters’ new book, “Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice.”
By Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Report
Among the Ruins of a Polygamous Sect, Short Creek Residents Rebuild Their Town
Exiles return in the wake of FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs’ imprisonment.
By Barak Wright
Essay
For Such a Time as This: Conservative Evangelical Women and the Trump Presidency
Even a less-than-ideal leader can be influenced by the right women in “such a time as this.”
By Emily Johnson
Review
The Hopeful, Ordinary Catholicism of Lady Bird
The chapel settings and nuns’ habits are both unremarkable and authentic.
By Xarissa Holdaway
Review
New Miniseries Revisits Waco Siege 25 Years Later
Americans are still arguing about the same things-guns, federal overreach, and religious extremism.
By Gordon Haber