The presidency of Donald Trump has created unavoidable moral dilemmas for a distinct subset of Christians who are overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly evangelical and more uniformly pro-Trump than any other part of the American electorate.
Immigrant shelters drug traumatized teenagers without consent
Whether they came to the U.S. alone, or were forcibly separated from their families at the border, despondent minors are often pressured into taking psychotropic drugs without approval from a parent or guardian. Related commentary: Inviolate! The protection of all…
How the National Prayer Breakfast plays into the indictment of an alleged Russian spy
Journalist and author Jeff Sharlet on the National Prayer Breakfast, Maria Butina, and the group that calls itself “the Family.”
I’m a pro-life woman. But I’m worried about a post-Roe America.
For nearly half a century, abortion has been enshrined by our courts as a constitutional right. What will happen to our society if that ceases to be true?
The Christian Nationalism of Donald Trump
Christian Nationalism has taken many forms over the years and certain versions of it are older than the United States itself.
The least of these
I do not remember hugs or kisses or sweet-smelling pies. My first memory of my mother is her leaving me on the doorsteps of strangers, promising to return.
How Maria Butina, accused Russian spy, worked her way into top US circles
According to the FBI, when guns didn’t bring her to Trump, Butina tried again with God. An investigator described in court filings a series of contacts between Butina and an organizer for the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
The Southern Baptists dumped a predator or two, but let’s hold off on the F-word
The #metoo and #churchtoo movements have put SBC leaders on the defensive, as earlier revelations of widespread child sexual abuse by priests did to the all-male Roman Catholic hierarchy. Yet both groups continue to deny that there could be any…
Episcopal convention approves a ‘pastoral solution’ on same-sex marriage
Same-sex couples will now be able to marry in their home parish even if their local bishop has moral objections to gay marriage, Episcopal Church leaders decided on Friday (July 13).
Even never Trump evangelicals might be swayed by the Supreme Court
Particularly in the evangelical world, the divisions over the 2016 election were bitter. Two years later, their largely positive reaction to Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is one sign that the intense political fractures in the evangelical world are fading.
“Under Trump, the government is worse than it has been before,” Jimmy Carter says
Exactly 39 years ago July 15, President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech that foresaw many of the problems America faces now.
Baylor settles with former student who accused football players of gang rape
Several Baylor officials did not properly respond to her claims, the unnamed plaintiff said in her lawsuit filed 14 months ago in Waco’s U.S. District Court.