As a movement, it’s anarchic and not formulaic. Each community has its own structure and rules, and ever since Dorothy Day died in 1980, it’s been leaderless. It’s also pretty fringe, as religious movements go. But that might be about to change.
Lucky the Jews didn’t understand what Mike Pence was really saying
His speech actually repudiated Jewish tradition, echoed tropes used to persecute Jews, and cast them as a mere tools for the salvation of Christians.
Book explores why millions of Americans believe God made Trump president
There will be no point at which Trump’s most loyal evangelical and charismatic supporters declare they have had enough. Because to do so would be to admit that they were wrong, that God wasn’t behind Trump’s election, and that their Holy Spirit radar might be on the fritz.
How can these things be? Making sense of evangelical politics
We cannot overestimate how profoundly the lens of abortion focuses and shapes the evangelical imagination concerning what it means to be a faithful witness to the gospel in this day and time.
For Christians, the green revolution is stalling — and politics may be why
Despite widespread efforts to advance environmental awareness in churches and seminaries, a new study shows that two decades of advocacy have not made Christians any greener in their outlooks.
Are white evangelicals sacrificing the future in search of the past?
As a group, evangelicals are drifting further away — politically and culturally — from the American mainstream. There are growing signs that white evangelical Protestantism is no longer immune to the broader social and cultural forces that are reshaping the…
Florida lawmakers consider requiring schools to post ‘In God we trust’
Contending Florida’s school children need closer ties to the state’s foundations, a state House subcommittee unanimously backed a bill to require the posting of the words “In God We Trust” in a “conspicuous place” at all public schools.
Translating the N. T. Wright and David Bentley Hart Tussle
The recent New Testament dust-up between big-name scholars reminds us how hard—and important—Bible translation can be.
It started as a joke: Only women could fix the ‘mess in the Middle East’
On an intense weeklong trip through the Holy Land, six rabbis and five ministers, all women, try to figure out a way to make the discourse about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict less toxic.
Pence: U.S. embassy to move to Jerusalem in 2019
Vice President Mike Pence announced that the U.S. Embassy in Israel will move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2019.
Franklin Graham praises Trump as staunch defender of Christianity
Graham, son of the famous evangelist Billy Graham and president of the international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, appeared on Fox & Friends on Sunday to tout what he believes Trump accomplished during his first year.
Protestant, Muslim, Atheist, Jew: 4 leftist perspectives a year into Trump’s presidency
If Trump has invigorated the swath of conservative religious Americans, he has also galvanized the religious left.











