Ronald Reagan
Reagan’s great America shining on a hill twisted into Trump’s dark vision of Christian nationalism
By Diane Winston — April 17, 2024
(The Conversation) — Reagan and Trump − two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents − used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
Yes, Biden and Trump are old. Jewish teaching says that can be a good thing.
By Avi Shafran — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — Look what happened when Judean King Rehoboam shunned the advice of the court elders.
American Values Survey with Robert P. Jones; Diane Winston and Reagan’s Evangelical Vision
By Ray Kirstein — November 5, 2023
Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Dr. Robert P. Jones, founder and president at Public Religion Research Institute, about the 2023 American Values Survey; also, "Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision" author Dr. Diane Winston
Arthur Gay, NAE leader who introduced Reagan’s ‘evil empire’ speech, dead at 86
By Adelle M. Banks — July 28, 2023
(RNS) — Gay led the National Association of Evangelicals during a time when Reagan was seeking the continuing support of U.S. evangelicals.
Undoing the Christian nationalism of the Doctrine of Discovery
By Andrew Whitehead — May 8, 2023
(RNS) — More direct action from the Catholic Church is necessary to uproot the remnants of the
Doctrine.
A prayer for Bruce Willis
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 21, 2023
(RNS) — The famous actor is on a journey. Many of us know the GPS.
Planning for our post-Roe world
By Charles C. Camosy — February 9, 2023
(RNS) — Everyone in the pro-life movement sees this as a moment for doing something new.
The Christian right’s Faustian bargain
By Mark Silk — September 6, 2022
(RNS) — It goes back 42 years.
Pro-lifer 3.0 to abortion-rights supporters: Let’s talk
By Charles C. Camosy — June 27, 2022
(RNS) — Let’s put on our big-boy and big-girl boots and have an exchange that matters.
For the religious right, a victory 50 years in the making
By Yonat Shimron and Jack Jenkins — June 24, 2022
(RNS) — A mighty coalition comprising mostly conservative Catholics, evangelical Christians and Mormons grounded its theological aims in the language of human rights and played its politics unrelentingly.
From the new Christian right to Christian nationalism, part 1
By Mark Silk — February 21, 2022
(RNS) — Up first, the 20th century.
In Biden’s visit with the pope, a page from Reagan’s playbook?
By Steven P. Millies — November 30, 2021
(The Conversation) — Joe Biden may be only the country’s second Catholic president, but a long line of U.S. leaders have met with popes over the years.
Edmund Burke wouldn’t recognize evangelicals’ vaccine resistance as conservatism
By Stephanie Martin — October 7, 2021
(RNS) — Rolling up our sleeves is the most Christian, American — and conservative — thing to do.
Randall Balmer on why racism, not abortion, birthed the religious right
By Yonat Shimron — September 22, 2021
(RNS) — In his new book, he shows it was government interference in ‘segregation academies’ such as Bob Jones University that sparked the growth of the religious right. Opposition to abortion was an afterthought.
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