David P. Gushee
David P. Gushee is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by David P. Gushee
The problem of the half-churched Christian
By David P. Gushee — March 17, 2016
On the negative effects of the wafer-thin church commitment that characterizes many self-identified Christians.
Will God save us from Donald Trump? (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — March 16, 2016
(RNS) God has created the kind of world in which the lives of godly people, rooted in divine law and seeking moral virtue, yield good fruit. The wicked self-destruct.
Will God save us from Donald Trump?
By David P. Gushee — March 14, 2016
Given Donald Trump's problems and the danger he poses, how long will it be until he implodes? Do we need a miracle?
How Trump resembles many popular evangelical preachers (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — March 10, 2016
(RNS) Three ways the worldly Donald Trump dazzles many Christians by resembling their favorite preachers.
Donald Trump and the preachers he resembles
By David P. Gushee — March 9, 2016
How the worldly Donald Trump dazzles many Christians by resembling their favorite preachers.
When the governor called in Jesus to defend gay people from Christians
By David P. Gushee — March 7, 2016
Georgia's Republican governor Nathan Deal rejects anti-gay "religious liberty" excesses.
America unveiled, or, when you don’t feel at home in your own country
By David P. Gushee — March 1, 2016
What to do when you feel like a stranger to many millions of your neighbors, whom you find incomprehensible.
How Reinhold Niebuhr speaks to 2016 American politics
By David P. Gushee — February 24, 2016
What would Reinhold Niebuhr say about our politics right now?
Trump, Cruz popularity represents two very different Christian failures (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — February 22, 2016
(RNS) In the Christian moral formation of these supposed Christians they have not been offered an adequate inoculation against the kind of politics Trump represents.
Trump, Cruz popularity represents two very different Christian failures
By David P. Gushee — February 21, 2016
Christian voters should look for candidates committed to civility, solidarity, justice, mercy, compassion, rule of law, and human rights.
My illuminating glimpse of ‘driving while black’
By David P. Gushee — February 18, 2016
What happened the day I was in the car and my black friend was pulled over by the police.
The great evangelical divorce: continuing the conversation
By David P. Gushee — February 15, 2016
The author responds to numerous questions about his latest post saying conservative and progressive evangelicals are heading for a divorce.
Conservative and progressive US evangelicals head for divorce
By David P. Gushee — February 12, 2016
Conservative and progressive evangelicals need to let each other go, acknowledging that they have become two separate religious communities.
Why this resolution of Hawkins case is bad news for American evangelicalism
By David P. Gushee — February 10, 2016
After awhile this wasn't about Dr. Hawkins at all, but about the future of American evangelicalism.
Ten things I am learning from the presidential campaign
By David P. Gushee — February 4, 2016
A broken system, social backlash, political correctness, and other observations from the campaign.
