Russell Moore is at it again — this time calling fellow evangelicals to account for their gallows humor about immigrants. In his latest Christianity Today newsletter, the former Southern Baptist ethics leader chides evangelicals for excusing their inhumanity toward immigrants…
In conversation with Robert P. Jones
Robert P. Jones is founder and president of Public Religion Research Institute, a vital resource for anyone interested in religion, race, politics and justice, and also the New York Times bestselling author of a new book, Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith…
Confronting the white consensus
If you ask American voters to name their biggest concerns, kitchen table issues always head the list. It’s not a partisan issue. Everybody wants a good job, decent health care and affordable gas and groceries. But white conservatives have a…
America has a heart two sizes too small
I don’t know if a cardiologist would notice, but America’s collective heart is contracting — and has been for at least the last few years. I am not a physician or a scholar, but in my own life, I generally…
A George Washington of (And For) MAGA
Conservatives have spent weeks arguing about the Odyssey, complaining that it’s too woke or not Christian enough, but the would-be blockbuster of the summer for conservative Christians is very clearly Young Washington.
Ideology, autocracy and resistance: Assessing our US situation
As the end of the summer approaches, Congress returns to Washington, and the November elections move into their stretch run, it seems a good time to try to assess where exactly we are in terms of this second Trump administration…
MAGA has meltdown over Ossoff mentioning Natalie Harp
At a Sunday rally in Atlanta, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., delivered an attack on President Donald Trump and Republican challenger Mike Collins. He framed this year’s Georgia Senate race as a referendum on the Trump administration’s record. Ordinary political discourse….
Atheism, nationalism and the conductor of the crazy train
About a year or so ago, actor Rainn Wilson posted on social media, “The metamorphosis of Jesus Christ from a humble servant of the abject poor to a symbol that stands for gun rights, prosperity theology, anti-science, limited government (that…
The danger of calling Democrats communists and Republicans patriots
As if we were all in the evangelical equivalent of the film Groundhog Day, America awakens in the Garden of Eden every morning. There’s always a talking snake offering us poisonous fruit. And our current snake — President Donald Trump…
Anthony Fauci is MAGA’s devil du jour
Republican attempts to interrogate and denigrate Anthony Fauci are but the latest attempt to identify a devil other than the one they’ve taken up residence with. This week, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and other Republicans subpoenaed the former head of…
Warnock stumped by those who love Jesus but not the poor
Baptist preacher and U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock said he is often stumped by evangelical Christians who claim to love Christ but blame the poor for being poor. “I do not understand how it is that people who claim to be…
Why do we keep sounding the alarm?
A common criticism I get here at BNG and that some of my progressive clergy friends get in their congregations is this: “Why do you have to keep talking about Donald Trump and Christian nationalism all the time? Could you…