David Gushee: Christians, Conflict and Change
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.
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.
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 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.
