Evangelicals and the Wrong Side of History
As pundits and politicians have courted conservative evangelical leaders, they have forgotten that evangelicals tend to be on the wrong side of history.
As pundits and politicians have courted conservative evangelical leaders, they have forgotten that evangelicals tend to be on the wrong side of history.
Posted 05.17.2012
By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Prison Fellowship founder and former Nixon aide Chuck Colson was memorialized Wednesday ...
Posted 05.15.2012
By Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune (RNS) Richard Mouw never intended to start a riot within the evangelical community by saying his fellow ...
The Huffington Post | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.11.2012
WASHINGTON -- One day before Mitt Romney is scheduled to give the commencement address at Liberty University, the director of religious outreach for P...
Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.09.2012
In a matchup between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, it's an easy choice for conservatives like both of us to fully endorse Governor Romney in this year's election.
John Shore | Posted 05.01.2012
This is an election year. If a petition calling upon Christians to affirm LGBTQ people is signed by hundreds of thousands of Christians, then the entire conversation around the gay issue changes.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.21.2012
WINTER PARK, Fla. -- Few if any of the Christian conservatives here at The Awakening conference said they would name Mitt Romney as their first choice...
AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 04.22.2012
WASHINGTON -- He was described as the "evil genius" of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergate-related...
Craig S. Keener | Posted 04.19.2012
Given evangelicalism's diverse history and its undefined future, it is both inaccurate and unhelpful to stereotype all "evangelicals" as the religious right. Today, stereotyping evangelicalism as a whole only fortifies the influence of the political right.
Jonathan Merritt | Posted 04.18.2012
Below the surface, the largest Protestant denomination in North America still has serious race problems, proving once again that old paradigms die hard.
Christopher Lane | Posted 04.18.2012
The atrophying of our national understanding of secularism has dramatic implications for the country's well-being, including, most fundamentally, its ability to separate politics from religion.
Brian D. McLaren | Posted 04.14.2012
What do you do when you aren't comfortable being outspoken, aren't comfortable being silent and aren't comfortable being uncomfortably in between? For me, that's meant a foray into comic short fiction
David Briggs | Posted 04.05.2012
Even as U.S. Christians have changed their views dramatically on issues such as same-sex marriage and women clergy, they have overwhelming held fast with the traditional view of the resurrection.
Jonathan Merritt | Posted 04.05.2012
Let's be honest here. Does anyone believe an effort like this one isn't an attempt to register those who will almost certainly vote Republican?
Mother Jones | ?€”Tim Murphy | Posted 04.05.2012
It hasn't been pretty--often, it's been quite ugly--but after racking up three more primary wins in Wisconsin, Maryland, and Washington, DC, on Tuesda...
Newsweek | Posted 04.06.2012
If you go to the second floor of the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., you’ll find a small room containing an 18th-century Bi...
AP | THOMAS BEAUMONT and STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 03.31.2012
FITCHBURG, Wis. — Appearing ever-more confident in Wisconsin's primary, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney focused entirely on Democr...
Rev. Steven D. Martin | Posted 03.30.2012
I tend to approach these cultural phenomena with a concern that my comfort level will be jolted. What I should be concerned about is what these phenomena say about our culture.
Rev. Richard Cizik | Posted 05.27.2012
The death of Trayvon Martin ought to provoke some righteous indignation. Not just from the folks who turn out in Manhattan and Florida, but from the white evangelical community in pulpits throughout the country.
Tanya Luhrmann | Posted 05.27.2012
Millions and millions of Americans experience themselves as having a personal relationship with God that is as vivid and intimate as a child's imaginary friend. Why has this way of imagining God become so popular?
Marvin Meadors | Posted 05.22.2012
Before we get conservative politicians to change their minds regarding climate change we must get them to listen, a rather Herculean task in itself.
Howard Barbanel | Posted 05.19.2012
The Santorum people and the media would like you to believe that this is still a tight contest for the GOP nomination. From an actuarial, statistical and probability standpoint, it probably isn't.
AP | KASIE HUNT | Posted 05.19.2012
CENTRAL, La. — When a nationally influential evangelical leader gathered dozens of pastors at his home church to hear from a presidential candid...
Aaron Taylor | Posted 05.18.2012
You may be thinking, "Just how exactly does a guy who claims to believe in the inspiration of Scripture arrive at the conclusion that God is pro-peace?
AP | By ALAN FRAM and JENNIFER AGIESTA | Posted 03.13.2012
By ALAN FRAM and JENNIFER AGIESTA, The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- White born-again and evangelical Christians were dominating Alabama's and Mis...
Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou | Posted 05.20.2012