The most surprising aspect about Trump’s solid appeal among Republican primary voters may be what it says about the waning place of religion in American politics.
Wiley Drake offers to run as Trump VP
A former officer in the Southern Baptist Convention who was on the ballot in California as Alan Keyes’ running mate in 2008 this time around is offering his services to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. Wiley Drake, pastor of the First…
‘Real’ evangelicals don’t support Trump? Not so fast.
The majority of evangelical voters are not supporting Trump, it’s true. But plenty of them by any measure are.
Faith leaders ask candidates to give poor ‘living wage’
On the anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dozens of faith leaders are calling for the U.S. presidential candidates to include a “living wage” for low-income workers in their political agendas.
The theology of Ted Cruz
Cruz’s defense of life is hard to reconcile with his calls to carpet-bomb and “annihilate” ISIS. How does one reconcile the defense of human dignity with these policy proposals?
Political organizer blasts SBC leader’s advice
An evangelical political operative says a Southern Baptist leader’s advice for Christians to vote for third-party or write-in candidates rather than settling for a “lesser of two evils” is a road map to victory for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, American…
Americans see immigrants more favorably than do Trump, Cruz
The 2016 Republican presidential campaign boils with anti-immigrant rhetoric but candidates’ harsh proposals don’t resonate with most Americans, particularly religious believers and young adults.
Springsteen and Lent: Born in the USA
I always thought Palm Sunday was such a fun day as a child. Each year, the choir or children would enter into the sanctuary waving palm branches to a celebratory hymn of some sort. And each year, someone would awkwardly…
The Religious Right is in a battle for souls, and it’s losing to Donald Trump
What’s the mood among influential Christians? Sad!
‘Evangelical elite’ just doesn’t get it, claims pastor and Trump supporter
A Southern Baptist pastor who has been supportive of GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump says leaders of an “evangelical elite” vocally opposed to Trump are out of touch with people in the pew. “There is an absolute disconnect between…
To such as these
It was the last place I wanted to be that night. It had been a long day, and now I was crammed into a hot and crowded school auditorium for my son’s school music program. I gave him a thumbs…
Trump’s pastor friends have one thing in common: They’re all rich
While some prominent members of the Religious Right have repeatedly disavowed Trump’s candidacy, there is one group of conservative Christian clergy that has consistently called Trump a friend, and vice-versa: preachers of the so-called “prosperity gospel.