People like to believe their faith informs who and what they vote for, not the other way around.
Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church: We were ‘true believers,’ everyone else the enemy
My grandfather was Fred Phelps, who founded the notorious Westboro Baptist Church. This is what he taught us.
Do Methodists have a case against Jeff Sessions?
Though the denomination is the least likely in the US to administer church discipline, critical voices have been swirling around its highest-ranking politician.
Evangelical PR blitz before midterms won’t fix the ‘81% problem’
Evangelicals—and those who are strongly invested in a “respectable” image for evangelicalism—now seem to be making a concerted effort to push back ahead of the midterm elections.
‘God is going to have to forgive me’: Young evangelicals speak out
Young evangelicals are questioning the typical ties between evangelicalism and Republican politics.
Big 12 clears Baylor after review of new sex assault safeguards, levies $2 million fine
The 21-month review verified the school made proper improvements to its policies and responses surrounding sexual assault. The Big 12 also slapped a $2 million fine on the university and left other financial aspects of the procedure unsettled.
European Christian missionaries and their false sense of progress
What does maturity look like? Whiteness is a horrific answer to this question
Does Trump encourage white supremacists? Faith groups divided in survey
Three-quarters of black Protestants say Trump’s behavior and decisions are emboldening white supremacists while slightly more than a quarter of white evangelicals agree with that view. Overall, more than half of Americans — 54 percent — say this is the…
Shockingly tone-deaf GOP has evangelical ‘rabbi’ pray for Pittsburgh victims
Most Jews find Messianic Jews — the best known of which are Jews for Jesus — highly offensive.