In his new book, Ben Sasse has identified the right project for America: rehabilitating a shared moral language.
The Vanishing American Adult: Senator Ben Sasse on Virtue In Politics
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New Book Examines How Evangelicals Entered American Politics
THE EVANGELICALS The Struggle to Shape America By Frances FitzGerald Illustrated. 740 pp. Simon & Schuster. $35. When Jimmy Carter […]
Trump Election Lends Rise to “Religious Left” as U.S. Political Force
Since President Donald Trump’s election, monthly lectures on social justice at the 600-seat Gothic chapel of New York’s Union Theological […]
‘The Benedict Option’ and Rod Dreher’s LGBT Challenge
Rod Dreher makes a powerful argument for communal religious life in his book, The Benedict Option. But he has not […]
Obama Had a Plan to ‘Reduce the Need for Abortion’; How Did He Forget It?
And what its failure teaches us about our broken politics.
Will the Religious Left Come Out of Hiding?
The religious left is the Sasquatch of American politics. It leaves footprints in the snow but recent sightings of the […]
Abortion Comes Up at Tim Kaine, Mike Pence Vice-Presidential Debate
The issue finally came up at the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night, showing why religion and conscience are important in […]
Beyond the Voting Booth: Can Christians Still Influence Culture?
Not long ago, we reported a landscape change in American politics. People who self-identify as non-religious now make up the […]
White Christians No Longer the Majority Faith Group In America, Leaving Some Anxious About the Future
White Christians are no longer the majority faith group in America. In 2008, members of the group composed 54 percent […]
2016 Election Shows White Christian America Has Surrendered Its Near Monopoly on Politics
A once powerful demographic group is losing ground in American politics.
Trump’s Play to Win Evangelical Voters
At a meeting with more than 1,000 clergy in New York, the Republican nominee claimed political leaders are “selling Christianity […]
Has the GOP Lost Its Religion?
In American politics, where has God gone?
Donald Trump’s Rise Shows Religion Is Losing Its Power In U. S. Politics
Donald Trump, no doubt, is the most confounding candidate produced by the American political system in decades. He offers enormous […]
Evangelicals Feel Betrayed In Georgia
When Joshua McKoon learned that AT&T, Bank of America and hundreds of other companies had taken out a full-page newspaper […]
How Trump’s Huge Rallies Emulate Megachurches
Donald Trump supporters think it’s more important to be part of a movement than they care to analyze whether that […]
No Rivalry Between Evangelical Heirs Jerry Falwell Jr., Franklin Graham, Despite Their Different Ways of Engaging In Politics
One, the president of the Christian university his father founded, raised eyebrows and provoked an outcry among some evangelicals when […]
Why Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Do Organized Religion: ‘Everyone Believes In God In Their Own Ways’
Growing up, Bernie Sanders followed the path of many young American Jews. He went to Hebrew school, was bar mitzvahed […]
How the 7 Types of Evangelicals Will Affect the 2016 Presidential Race
It’s an axiom in American politics, duly repeated every four years: Evangelicals are the country’s biggest and most powerful religious […]
