Trump
Trump’s refugee policy is a miserable moral failure
So is our nation’s long history of choosing economic success over global equity, safety, and wellbeing.
Prominent evangelical scholars are, once again, disavowing Trump
They’re brave to do so. Do they go far enough?
by Greg Carey
Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s history of the manly godly man
How American evangelicalism baptized male aggression
Courage through small things
Maya Angelou says that we develop courage by doing small things. "You wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."
How the FBI has shaped American religion
J. Edgar Hoover's influence was even farther reaching than we know.
Trump's rotten fruit and my own
Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit. He never said doing so would be easy.
Tribalism is natural. It's also destroying us.
Amy Chua considers why we cling to people who look and act like us.
by LaVonne Neff
The many perspectives of American evangelicalism
A new book of essays shows that evangelicals aren't all the same culturally or politically. So what's holding them together?
by David Heim
Is Trump a deviation from American values or an expression of them?
E. J. Dionne, Norman Ornstein, and Thomas Mann see this presidency as a distortion of the country's character. But what if it's the opposite?
Hitting the pavement instead of the sheetcake
This is our Pentecost moment, to move out into the streets, proclaiming the Spirit's presence among all people.
Trump is a threat to democracy. How can we defend it?
The authoritarian nationalism of the 20th century never quite died. And Americans now aren't wiser than Europeans then.
by Gary Dorrien
Alternative facts in Bonhoeffer’s Germany
Bonhoeffer is speaking to his social context, which is shaped by Nazi propaganda. But what he interrogates in Of Folly parallels our current discourse labeled as post-truth or alternative facts.