On Tuesday night, I watched as 81 percent of white evangelicals and born-again Christians voted for someone who admitted to sexually assaulting women and gleefully affirming that he would face no consequences for doing so.
BGCT sets view of marriage as criteria for cooperation
Texas Baptists established affirmation of same-sex marriage or homosexual relations as grounds for declaring a church outside the bounds of cooperation with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
After election, faith leaders seek spaces for healing
This week, both liberal and conservative churches have tried to embrace their role as places to help heal and rejuvenate people’s spirits after such a bruising election.
Baptist church in Dallas votes full inclusion of LGBT members
Wilshire Baptist Church, a flagship congregation among progressive Baptists, has voted to grant gays and lesbians full membership to the church, which would allow them to be considered for leadership positions, and grant same sex marriages.
The disengaged plurality: 42% of eligible US voters stayed home
There’s only one way to break the American electorate of 2016 into two discrete and (somewhat) even groups: those who voted, and those who didn’t.
The revival of the old Religious Right
The obituary has been written many times over. The old-guard Religious Right would be diminished, perhaps vanquished, over its support of Donald Trump. But then Trump won, and overwhelming numbers of white Christians helped carry him to victory.
Religious environmentalists gird themselves for a Trump presidency
Environmentalists who ground their work in faith, fear that of all the changes a Donald Trump presidency will bring, his dismissal of climate change could be the most far-reaching and damaging.
Christian conviction in the age of Trump
Practice the beatitudes of Jesus and you’ll never be tempted to bully. Speak truth to power. Do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with God. Weak and vulnerable people need our embrace, not our mockery. Welcome the stranger.
The evangelical reckoning over Donald Trump
White, conservative Christians voted for the Republican candidate by a huge margin, but this election revealed deep fractures among leaders and churches — especially along racial lines.