Donald Trump’s gains with nonwhite evangelical voters is one of several explanations Ryan Burge offers for what happened in the 2024 presidential election. The story of white evangelical support for Trump has been documented time and again, but what made…
Trump blasts enemies in Easter morning message before hitting golf course
President Donald Trump — hailed by his supporters for “bringing faith back to the White House” — spent Easter Sunday on the golf course and blasting his enemies on social media. “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics…
Texas on the brink of finalizing a school voucher bill
After years of opposition from rural Republicans and urban Democrats, the Texas Legislature passed a school voucher bill April 17. Texas now joins at least 15 other states with some form of taxpayer-funded vouchers for private education that critics say…
Attempted censure of Episcopal bishop stuck in committee but she explains more to Sojourners
The Congressional attempt to censure Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde for her homily at the Washington National Cathedral appears to be going exactly nowhere. Three months after the service tied to Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, the proposed resolution remains stuck…
Trump officials cite Harvard Divinity as one of university’s ‘schools of concern’
Easily lost in the flurry of news about Harvard University refusing to bend the knee to the Trump administration is that Harvard Divinity School is one of the “programs, schools and centers of concern” cited by the administration as having…
Trump’s fight against international students hits home at Baylor
The Trump administration’s unexplained revocation of international student visas hit Baylor University April 9. The Waco, Texas, school currently is among a select few faith-based private universities affected by the unannounced revocations of hundreds of study visas at 120 schools…
It’s time to name and prosecute Trump’s minions
Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has — wrongly and dangerously — granted President Donald Trump broad immunity for illegal acts he commits as president, it has not afforded the same luxury to the many minions who do his bidding….
Population of Texas looks different than politicians in Texas, Jones says
Although state-level data appears not to exist, it is a safe bet the composite religious backgrounds of those serving in Texas Legislature does not match the composite picture of the state’s citizens, Robert P. Jones told a group of Texas…
Not all conservatives are Christian nationalists, Tyler explains
Simply holding conservative religious or political views does not make a person a Christian nationalist, Amanda Tyler told a group of Texas religion journalists April 7. Tyler, executive director of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, was a panelist at…
Professor outlines three common rebuttals to church-state separation
The principle of church-state separation is not a myth even though those exact words don’t appear in the U.S. Constitution, according to scholar David R. Brockman. Brockman, nonresident scholar in religion and public policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute and…
Former SBC pastor nominated as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom
A former Southern Baptist pastor has been nominated U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. President Donald Trump has nominated former North Carolina pastor Mark Walker, 55, to the post, which is part of the U.S. Department of State. This office…
This is a three-alarm fire for freedom of speech
Of all the shocking things the Trump administration has done in less than three months, please pay attention to this: Today, the administration said it has the power to deport a student simply because of that student’s beliefs. Not because…