Curated

The basic premise of America First contradicts the main assumptions of American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism has always said the United States must model and spread democracy, religious liberty and freedom. America First claims that such views have caused innumerable problems.

I could have been told that there were other valid ways to interpret the faith, rather than basically being told “it’s our way or the highway (to hell!).” And perhaps that would have kept me in the fold.

Nationalism, often expressed in religious terms, is a key organizing principle in President Trump’s foreign policy.

California has more megachurches than any other state: There are over 200 Protestant, theologically conservative churches with at least 2,000 weekly attenders.

The shots fired in Macon’s first homicide of the year have torn a hole in the hearts of her family and the congregation of First Baptist Church of Christ.

Mormons and evangelicals have historically been the religious groups most closely identified with the Republican Party, and they have long aligned on such culture war issues as same-sex marriage, gender roles, transgender rights and abortion. However, those shared political views do not translate to a theological alliance.

Several writers have pointed out how “The Crown” took more liberties with historical fact and chronology in its second season. So did the show take some liberties in depicting the queen’s faith and her relationship with the evangelist?

Less than half of the country — just two out of every five Americans — believe clergy are honest and have high ethical standards, a recent Gallup poll found.

The Christian understanding of holy places is that all people have claims to the sanctity of their holy places, because holiness is a divine characteristic, not a human one. No party should ever be able to make an exclusive claim over a holy place — in this case, over the holy city of Jerusalem.

Despite American Muslims’ fast rate of growth, they will continue to be a religious minority in an overwhelmingly Christian country. In 2014 Christians made up a whopping 70.6 percent of the U.S. adult population, while non-Christian faiths, including Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and others, only made up about 5.9 percent.

How might members of the body of Christ think more faithfully about guns and gun violence in light of Christian peculiarity, of the Kingdom of God?

Respectable evangelicals have been defining away their embarrassing spiritual kin for a century, at least.