religious right
Religious identity and Supreme Court justices — a brief history
By Nomi Stolzenberg — October 19, 2020
(THE CONVERSATION) — Religion has always played a strong role in shaping the composition of the United States Supreme Court. The specific nature of that influence, however, has changed over time.
Voter guides show the power and duplicity of American evangelicalism
By Angela Denker — September 3, 2020
(RNS) — At one point, conservative political outreach to pastors may have led with church teachings or Bible passages. But it’s clear that conservatives are seeking engagement simply in order to make Christians more conservative.
Trump’s 2020 religious attack on Biden harks back to 1800
By Mark Silk — August 11, 2020
(RNS) — Then too, a Democrat was charged with being godless.
How wearing masks and masculinity got confused
By Tara Isabella Burton — July 9, 2020
(RNS) — Some of the most robust arguments against masks have also come from some of the political and religious right’s paragons of performative masculinity.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove wants white evangelicals to reckon with the Bible
By Yonat Shimron — January 2, 2020
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — He holds out hope he can show them how he believes they’ve misread the Bible and help them discover, as he has, the black Southern freedom movement's focus on justice and freedom.
Impeachment debate suggests shifting religious and political winds
By Jack Jenkins — December 23, 2019
(RNS) — Spiritual discourse has pockmarked what has become an atypically religious — and particularly Christian — impeachment process.
Do the Democrats have a religion problem?
By Mark Silk — October 31, 2019
(RNS) — With the rise of the religiously unaffiliated, the God gap matters less and less. Will the Democrats find a way to strike a new spiritual chord on the environment?
Religious right sticks by Trump as political heat rises
By Elana Schor — October 11, 2019
(AP) — "Whatever you think of Trump personally," one evangelical supporter told Fox News recently, "it is undeniable" that he has succeeded in enacting conservative Christians' agenda.
Pete Buttigieg: Religious left is ‘stirring’
By Jack Jenkins — August 29, 2019
(RNS) — Buttigieg spoke with Religion News Service to discuss sin, immigration, being a religious millennial and whether he can rally the support of a burgeoning religious left movement.
Trump steadily fulfills goals on religious right wish list
By David Crary — August 21, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — Mat Staver, president of the legal advocacy organization Liberty Counsel, said Trump has fulfilled about 90% of the goals on a list that Staver and other conservative leaders compiled.
Leaders of religious right balk at labeling Trump a racist
By David Crary — August 1, 2019
While some faith leaders have rebuked President Donald Trumps for a series of tweets they find offensive, his religious right supports claim the president's remarks are not racist and show his tough leadership style.
Watching the rise of the religious left on 1970s TV
By Jack Jenkins — July 10, 2019
(RNS) — In a new book, religion scholar L. Benjamin Rolsky looks at the history of the religious left from the unusual perspective of 'All in the Family' and its creator, Norman Lear.
Tony Perkins is the wrong pick to lead religious freedom efforts
By Jack Moline — June 26, 2019
(RNS) — While taking up USCIRF's chair position, Perkins remains president of the Family Research Council, sending emails emphasizing how his group's ‘influence is being felt in Washington, D.C. and across our nation.’
Can the religious right and left be more than a rubber stamp for their parties’ policies?
By Jacob Lupfer — May 23, 2019
(RNS) — Republicans and Democrats say they listen more than ever to the religious wings of their parties, but in truth both religious camps are more likely to follow than lead.
How abortion unified Catholics and evangelicals to become a power on the right
By Steven Waldman — May 7, 2019
(RNS) — Abortion politics thawed relations between conservative Catholics and Protestants and indirectly strengthened religious freedom in the United States.
