2020 election
At victimized Charleston church, Booker condemns gun violence, racism
By Jack Jenkins — August 7, 2019
CHARLESTON, S.C. (RNS) — Invoking God and Christian love, presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker railed against gun violence and racism on Wednesday (Aug. 7) at the site of a 2015 church shooting.
5 issues religious liberals will be tuned to in the Democratic debates
By Jack Jenkins — July 30, 2019
(RNS) — Treatment of immigrants, climate change and poverty are among the issues they care about.
In remote Appalachia, liberal Christians gather at Wild Goose to pray — and plan
By Jack Jenkins — July 15, 2019
HOT SPRINGS, N.C. (RNS) — As the religious left exerts an unaccustomed influence on politics, this Christian festival has begun to draw recognizable names, including presidential candidates.
Eclectic field could turn first Democratic debate into a faith forum
By Jack Jenkins — June 26, 2019
(RNS) — Tonight's candidates' volubility about faith matters could make the first debate a free-for-all once religion comes up.
Democrats’ new faith outreach director launches ‘listening sessions’
By Jack Jenkins — June 25, 2019
(RNS) — Faith, the Rev. Derrick Harkins said, “will be a priority going into 2020, but even more importantly, beyond 2020.”
Joe Biden and other candidates speak to diverse faith leaders, activists
By Jack Jenkins — June 17, 2019
(RNS) — Former Vice President Biden cited a family member who once responded to encouragement “Joey keep the faith!” by saying “No Joey, spread it — spread the faith!”
Boisterous faith leaders and a silent Pete Buttigieg rally against Trump at White House
By Jack Jenkins — June 12, 2019
(RNS) — Despite being repeatedly blocked by federal agents and the mysterious closure of a park across from the White House, the demonstrators still got their message of resistance to the president across.
2020 Democratic hopefuls field faith forum invites
By Jack Jenkins — April 26, 2019
(RNS) — Beto O'Rourke's campaign declined an invite to a conservative religious forum, but Pete Buttigieg's is considering it, along with another at a progressive seminary.
Franklin Graham challenges Pete Buttigieg, but voters unlikely to care
By Jack Jenkins — April 26, 2019
(RNS) — Pete Buttigieg says God doesn't care that he is gay. Franklin Graham disagrees. But a recent survey suggests voters might be more open to a gay candidate than an evangelical Christian one.
Mayor Pete, lay off the Pharisees!
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 15, 2019
(RNS) — 'Pharisee,' again? I hadn't thought of that word in decades. Until Mayor Pete ...
The spiritual politics of presidential candidate Marianne Williamson
By Jack Jenkins — April 12, 2019
(RNS) — 'The only way to defeat dog whistles is to drown them out with angel voices. But the angels can only sing through us,' said the author of 'A Return to Love,' of her run to deprive Donald Trump of the White House.
‘We need to inspire the new, not just curse the darkness’
By Jack Jenkins — April 12, 2019
(RNS) — Spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson is running for president not just against Donald Trump but for a new politics based on love.
What every Democratic presidential candidate needs to know about religious voters
By Michael McCurry and Shaun Casey — April 9, 2019
(RNS) — The current crop of Democratic White House contenders can learn from how Senators Kennedy and Obama handled their very different faith-based crises.
Should Trump worry about white Catholic and mainline Protestant votes?
By Jack Jenkins — March 7, 2019
(RNS) — 'The nature of the Catholic sensibility – based in both faith and reason – is such that does not lend itself to being ideological and rather lends itself to being persuadable,' said the president of Catholic Democrats.
Julián Castro: Catholicism ‘has never been far from my life’
By Jack Jenkins — February 14, 2019
(RNS) — 'What has always attracted me to the Catholic faith is the social justice aspect of it,' Castro said.
