2020 presidential election
Why Trump’s electoral crisis is really a moral crisis
By David P. Gushee — November 11, 2020
(RNS) — The president’s inability to accept the truth is doing more than delaying a transition, it’s poisoning our society.
Trump evangelical advisers back voting challenges but stop short of alleging fraud
By Jack Jenkins — November 11, 2020
(RNS) — The Rev. Tony Suarez said he is 'realistic that Joe Biden may in fact be our next president' and said he hoped Biden would listen to evangelicals.
‘You can’t just jump to hope’: Episcopal Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on healing after the election
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 11, 2020
(RNS) — Curry spoke to Religion News Service about what divides the United States, what people of faith can do to help bridge those divisions and why he believes healing is possible.
The 2020 election was a referendum on race and Christian faith
By Shane Claiborne — November 10, 2020
(RNS) — We can see in how the vote went our competing visions for what we want America to be.
Joe Biden will remove the ‘bully’ from the bully pulpit
By John Gehring — November 9, 2020
(RNS) — Leading with a moral clarity, humility and grace drawn from Catholic roots, Biden may be able to help reclaim faith in the public square as a force for healing and justice.
Muslim voters doubled their turnout, turning a much-watched minority into an influential one
By Simran Jeet Singh — November 9, 2020
(RNS) — Many groups have made significant gains in their ability to deliver the vote in 2020, perhaps the most influential of which is the Muslim American bloc.
Who will President Joe Biden listen to on faith matters?
By Jack Jenkins and Emily McFarlan Miller — November 8, 2020
(RNS) — The nation's second Catholic president is likely to bring a more restrained, interfaith approach to his faith-based politics than his predecessor.
The GOP’s Catholic voter problem
By Ryan Burge — November 6, 2020
(RNS) — It’s no coincidence that three Rust Belt states with large populations of Catholics helped put the Democrats back in the White House in January of 2021.
Is democracy sacred?
By Anthony D. Baker — November 6, 2020
(The Conversation) — "Though politics relies on virtue, this does not make it religious," writes Anthony D. Baker.
God’s on his throne. But we still have to do the work.
By Andre Henry — November 5, 2020
(RNS) — The message to the powerful is ‘God is on the throne; act like it!’
Nearly 2,000 Catholic nuns sign letter demanding Trump ‘count the votes’
By Jack Jenkins — November 5, 2020
(RNS) — ‘It may be frustrating that we do not know immediately who won our 2020 Presidential election. Nonetheless, democracy is worth the hard work and the wait,’ said Sister Simone Campbell.
Vote, pray, wait: Faith leaders reassure congregations, call for full vote count as election remains uncertain
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 4, 2020
(RNS) — Clergy, houses of worship and faith-based organizations have been preparing their members for a long wait for election results.
How Trump’s strong play for Hispanic evangelicals helped him stun Biden in Florida
By Jack Jenkins — November 4, 2020
(RNS) — ‘I think the Biden campaign is going to say, ‘We blew it: we took for granted the Latino vote and the evangelical vote,’’ said the Rev. Tony Suarez, vice president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
A nun spends her Election Day defending the polls in Wisconsin
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 4, 2020
(RNS) — An alliance of Catholic women religious and ‘nones’ — those unaffiliated with any organized religion — fanned out to polls on Election Day, particularly in so-called swing states.
Closed for months by COVID-19, church reopens to provide respite on Election Day
By Alejandra Molina — November 4, 2020
PASADENA, Calif. (RNS) — The leadership at All Saints, a church with a long history of progressive activism, decided that opening the building to the public and parishioners was ‘a way for them to be in community.’
