David P. Gushee
David P. Gushee is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by David P. Gushee
An open letter to Iowa’s evangelicals
By David P. Gushee — February 1, 2016
Why presidential character, justice, and servanthood ought to matter most.
Hillary on Christian faith: it’s about love and service, not judgment
By David P. Gushee — January 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton defends a love and service version of Christianity congenial to mainline Protestants and contrasting with her GOP foes.
Donald Trump and the travesty of Christian tribalism
By David P. Gushee — January 20, 2016
Anyone who offers or falls for "Christian" tribalism separates himself from the God revealed in Jesus Christ.
How Martin Luther King became safe
By David P. Gushee — January 18, 2016
We do not honor the slain civil-rights leader when we conveniently forget his radical message and actions.
Culture wars threaten every school’s academic freedom
By David P. Gushee — January 12, 2016
Protecting universities as places for the free exchange of ideas rather than indoctrination centers of the left or the right.
What the Larycia Hawkins case means for evangelical colleges (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — January 8, 2016
(RNS) What Hawkins really violated were the implicit but very real political preferences of Wheaton’s constituency, not the school’s explicit theological standards.
Wheaton College, Doc Hawk, and a whole heap of trouble
By David P. Gushee — January 7, 2016
It's a chilling story, about a tenured Christian college professor offending a politically conservative white evangelical constituency.
Bye-bye, Rick and Huck! Why GOP evangelicals deserted their old pals (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — January 6, 2016
(RNS) How my online community explains evangelicals' surprising GOP picks.
Bye-bye, Rick and Huck! Why GOP evangelicals have deserted their old pals
By David P. Gushee — January 6, 2016
Christian social conservatives explain why they spurn Santorum and Huckabee, the 2016 candidates who focus the most on their agenda, for Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.
Winning God’s vote: boundaries for the candidate/clergy courtship in ’16
By David P. Gushee — December 30, 2015
Protecting our politics and our religion by setting some limits on the courtship between clergy and presidential candidates.
That’s what the “War on Christmas” is all about, Charlie Brown
By David P. Gushee — December 28, 2015
This "War on Christmas" thing is not really about Christmas. It's about Christians figuring out how to accept declining cultural power.
Bible’s values take a beating in latest GOP debate (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — December 16, 2015
(RNS) Care for for widows, orphans, civilians in time of war? Not relevant to the commander in chief's job, said several Republican candidates.
Bible’s values take a beating in GOP debate
By David P. Gushee — December 16, 2015
Care for for widows, orphans, civilians in time of war? Not relevant to the Commander in Chief job, said several Republican candidates.
Meet the four types of evangelicals; not all are political (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — December 15, 2015
(RNS) Evangelicals come in four flavors -- and don't assume that all of them are conservative political activists.
Four kinds of evangelicals, four very different results
By David P. Gushee — December 14, 2015
Four flavors of evangelicals: doctrinal, missionary, lifestyle, and political.
