Election
Study: Multiracial churches growing, but racial unity may be elusive
By Yonat Shimron — November 12, 2020
(RNS) — Diversity is a one-way street, the new study found. In nearly all cases, Blacks are joining mostly white congregations. Few whites join predominantly Black churches.
In a less religious country, Biden gained ground with religious voters
By Mark Silk — November 11, 2020
(RNS) — Faith outreach on the Democratic side cranked up a notch, closing the God gap just enough.
5 Faith-facts about VP-elect Kamala Harris, a Black Baptist with a Hindu family
By Yonat Shimron — November 7, 2020
(RNS) — Few, if any, vice presidential candidates have had as much exposure to the world’s religions as Kamala Harris, the 55-year-old senator from California whom Joe Biden picked Tuesday (Aug. 11) as his running mate.
Exit polls show few changes in the religious vote
By Yonat Shimron — November 5, 2020
(RNS) — Support for President Donald Trump among white evangelicals remained constant. Catholics split their vote. And non-Christians voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden.
The Trumpian breach of faith
By Mark Silk — November 4, 2020
(RNS) — Imagining what Theodore H. White would have made of the making of the president 2020.
The nondenominational Donald
By Mark Silk — October 28, 2020
(RNS) — The president discovers that his Presbyterianism was so 20th century.
Jewish voters edge further away from Trump
By Mark Silk — October 22, 2020
(RNS) — Republican politicians — Trump above all — have failed to grasp that Israel policy has never had much impact on the voting behavior of American Jews.
In battleground states, American Jews prefer Biden over Trump by a wide margin
By Yonat Shimron — October 21, 2020
(RNS) — A pair of surveys of likely Jewish voters in Florida and Pennsylvania shows that former Vice President Joe Biden has a massive lead over Donald Trump.
White Catholics could be key to a Biden victory
By Mark Silk — October 11, 2020
(RNS) — For Biden, the swing shown in a new poll has everything to do with reconstructing the ‘blue wall’ that collapsed in 2016.
Trump in the belly of the whale
By Mark Silk — October 4, 2020
(RNS) — Will President Trump's hospital stay change his approach to COVID-19?
Poll: Muslim American support for Trump rises, but most plan to vote for Biden
By Yonat Shimron — October 1, 2020
(RNS) — Muslims appeared to be the religious group least likely to support Trump in 2020, according to a new poll that also shows voter registration among Muslims lagging other religious groups.
Playing the anti-Catholic card in the Barrett nomination
By Mark Silk — September 27, 2020
(RNS) — Anti-Catholicism in American politics used to be all about Protestants against Catholics. These days, the Catholic right is crying foul, and their opponent is often other Catholic politicians and the pope himself.
Report: People who are highly spiritual tend to be more civic-minded
By Yonat Shimron — September 23, 2020
(RNS) — The Fetzer Institute-sponsored study also found that the more spiritual people said they were, the more inclined they appeared to be to volunteer and donate. But only 36% said their spirituality influences their political actions.
How will Joe Biden deal with the abortion question?
By Mark Silk — September 4, 2020
(RNS) — For the duration of the Democratic primary season, the abortion issue was off the table. Now that the general election is here, there's something to talk about.
John MacArthur claimed there is ‘no pandemic.’ He was politicizing science, experts say
By Yonat Shimron — September 1, 2020
(RNS) — The church appears to be wading into a highly politicized campaign to minimize or outright deny the existence of the coronavirus.
