2020 election
Pastor indicted alongside Trump returns to pulpit
By Jack Jenkins — August 29, 2023
(RNS) — The Rev. Stephen Lee, who is facing multiple charges regarding his alleged attempt to meddle in Georgia’s 2020 election results, began the service by reading from a passage that calls on believers to ‘put on the full armor of God.’
Pastor indicted alongside Trump in Georgia election meddling case
By Jack Jenkins — August 15, 2023
(RNS) — The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor is charged with attempting to influence witnesses and conspiring to solicit false statements and writings, all as part of an effort to influence an election worker.
Evangelical influencers pan Trump as driven by ‘grievances and self-importance’
By Yonat Shimron — November 30, 2022
(RNS) — In his email to some 70,000 evangelicals, Lane lauded Trump’s accomplishments, while saying his "compulsion to keep the spotlight upon himself have both become threadbare and trite."
Catholic bishops fight Biden but affirm his election
By Thomas Reese — January 20, 2022
(RNS) — Catholic bishops show that people can disagree with the president without buying into the big lie.
Someone is killing Republicans and Trump voters
By Thomas Reese — December 8, 2021
(RNS) — It is up to conservative leaders to save their own.
We must commemorate Jan. 6. A national fast is the best way to do so.
By Joshua Hammerman — November 10, 2021
(RNS) — Fasts have fallen from favor, but Jan. 6 deserves one. Our blemished Capitol and our sullied democracy still need that moment of cleansing and rededication.
Brad Raffensperger in conversation with Maina Mwaura
By Maina Mwaura and Jonathan Woodward — July 20, 2021
(RNS) — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger talks with Maina Mwaura about the difficulties of being caught in the middle during the fraught 2021 presidential election ballot counting.
Study: Trump expanded evangelical support in 2020, but Biden gained with other white Christians
By Jack Jenkins — July 2, 2021
(RNS) — Biden chipped away at Trump's support among white Catholics and white non-evangelical Protestants and ran up the score among the religiously unaffiliated.
At the Capitol, evangelicals’ ‘Thou art the man’ moment
By Maina Mwaura — January 9, 2021
(RNS) — Evangelicals must stand up and call out our political leaders' sins for the good of our leadership.
Warnock, Biden wins give twin thrills to religious liberals
By Elana Schor — January 8, 2021
(RNS) — Warnock and Biden are in the vanguard of the Democrats' evolution toward engagement on spiritual matters.
Could Catholic moral theology light the way for a new GOP?
By Charles C. Camosy — January 6, 2021
(RNS) — The party is realigning around a religious, multiethnic, working-class populism, and Catholic thought could provide an ideological foundation.
Warnock makes history with Senate win as Dems near majority
By Steve Peoples, Bill Barrow, and Russ Bynum — January 6, 2021
ATLANTA (AP) — A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler.
As ‘Jericho Marchers’ descend on Washington, local faith leaders brace for attacks
By Jack Jenkins — January 5, 2021
WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'Jericho Marchers' sang 'How Great Is Our God' as they processed around the U.S. Capitol holding Trump signs and waving Trump flags.
Georgia’s Black-Jewish campaign is the latest chapter in an old story
By Mark Silk — January 4, 2021
(RNS) — The experiences of the two communities in Atlanta have run parallel since the Civil War.
Senate race thrusts ‘Black America’s church’ into spotlight
By Aaron Morrison — January 3, 2021
(AP) — A high-stakes Senate race and a Trump-era cultural debate have thrust Ebenezer Baptist Church into the center of the current political debate.
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