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July 16, 2020
Matthew Avery Sutton
The Truth About Trump’s Evangelical Support
Evangelicals have successfully promoted a depoliticized vision of their movement. Its fundamental principles have plenty in common with Trump.
March 2, 2020
Magazine
Katherine Stewart
Faith Militant
How today’s religious right functions as a shadow political party
January 6, 2020
Tina Vasquez
Republicans Want to Make White Grievance Genteel Again
In the face of Trump's crude racism, some conservatives are practically begging for a return to the good old days of dog whistles.
July 17, 2019
Darren Dochuk
Men of God and the Genesis of the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
William Eddy was one of several devout Christians in the oil business who helped build a pivotal alliance in U.S. Middle East policy.
June 26, 2019
Magazine
Sarah Jones
Miriam Toews’s Quiet Revolution
The women in her new novel confront abuse and grapple with faith.
June 14, 2019
Kathryn Joyce
The Man Behind the State Department’s New “Natural Law” Focus
Robert George, longtime religious zealot and onetime Never Trumper, has reached the halls of Foggy Bottom.
May 9, 2019
Kevin M. Schultz
Arguing in Bad Faith
The curious appropriation of “Judeo-Christian” values on the right
November 5, 2018
Molly O'Toole
Can Megachurches Save El Salvador?
In a country torn apart by gang violence—forcing many to flee to the United States—evangelicalism is offering gang members a way out.
September 20, 2018
Magazine
Bryan Mealer
The Struggle for a New American Gospel
A liberal's search for God and faith in a divided country
September 20, 2018
Magazine
J.J. Gould
Belief in Democracy
July 9, 2018
Jeet Heer
Why all the anti-Catholic conspiracy-mongering?
May 19, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Race and Royalty
Reverend Michael Curry's sermon added a glowing moral dimension to the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
September 5, 2017
Sarah Jones
The Nashville Statement Is the Religious Right’s Death Rattle
Beneath an unequivocal stance against queer sexual orientation lies a deep insecurity about the Christian right's position in American politics.
June 8, 2017
Sarah Jones
Evangelicals know Trump is a liar. They just don’t care.
June 1, 2017
Warren Breckman
The Fortunes of Freud
The prestige that psychoanalysis gained in the midcentury was also its downfall.
May 17, 2017
Magazine
Jeff Sharlet
Pew Research
To understand the political power of evangelicals, we must look beyond the pulpits.
March 20, 2017
Magazine
Sarah Posner
Amazing Disgrace
How did Donald Trump—a thrice-married, biblically illiterate sexual predator—hijack the religious right?
February 17, 2017
Magazine
Win McCormack
The Populist Ploy
Revisiting Irving Kristol, the conservative thinker who predicted Trump’s rise.
December 15, 2016
Ellen Wayland-Smith
Donald Trump’s Capitalist Christianity Has Old Roots
It's a very American tradition.
October 25, 2016
Sarah Jones
BREAKING: White evangelicals support Donald Trump because they agree with him.
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