Sexuality & Gender
Essay
The Complicated Legacy of Bishop Eddie Long
The evangelical world has lost a controversial megastar. For two decades, few megachurch pastors were as influential as Bishop Eddie Long.
By Jonathan L. Walton
Editor’s Note
Bearing Witness at the Women’s March on Washington
“I’m a WITNESS for JUSTICE!” read the front, and on the back, “¡Soy TESTIGO de la JUSTICIA!”
By Marie Griffith
Essay
Donald Trump and Militant Evangelical Masculinity
Having replaced the Jesus of the gospels with an idol of machismo, it’s no wonder many have come to think of Trump himself as the nation’s savior.
By Kristin Du Mez
The States Project
Ohio: An Atheist Finds (Some) Reasons to Believe in Her Old Church
An Atheist Finds (Some) Reasons to Believe in Her Old Church.
By Sarah Stankorb
Interview
The Quest for Confident Pluralism: An Interview with John Inazu
This election exposed America’s fissures. It feels as if we are in the midst of a political and cultural civil war.
By Gordon Haber
Editor’s Note
Where Do We Go from Here?
The 2016 election is history, and several things are clearer to us now than they were before. It turns out that vast swaths of Americans …
By Marie Griffith
Essay
The Revival of the Old Religious Right
The obituary of the old-guard Religious Right has been written many times over. But then Donald Trump won, and overwhelming numbers of white Christians helped carry him to victory.
By Tiffany Stanley
Essay
The New White Nationalists?
There’s a 1920s Klan pamphlet, The Menace of Modern Immigration, that is worth recalling in the lead-up to the current presidential election. Written by H.W. …
By Kelly J. Baker
Essay
Eric Metaxas’s Bonhoeffer Delusions
“We are better than this,” declares Marian Wright Edelman, the president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund. “Bonhoeffer, the great German Protestant theologian who …
By Charles Marsh
Essay
The Christian Worldview of Mike Pence
Hours after Donald Trump’s infamous tape was released, Republicans were calling on Mike Pence to replace his running mate atop the ticket. Faced with a …
By Max Perry Mueller