faith and politics
Liberal Christian group kicks off new swing-state organizing
By Elana Schor — September 8, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Faithful America is launching a new project focused on chipping away at President Donald Trump's support among religious voters in three swing states.
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.
The role of religion in Trump’s presidency so far: An interactive timeline
By Jack Jenkins — August 24, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — As Trump prepares to kick off the first day of the 2020 Republican National Convention and his bid for four more years, Religion News Service takes a look back at some of the most impactful religion moments of his administration thus far.
Biden friend Sen. Coons to elevate faith on convention stage
By Elana Schor — August 20, 2020
(AP) — Coons is optimistic about Biden's ability to reshape faith issues in a way that Democrats can connect to their spiritual beliefs.
Josh Dickson’s road from Republican evangelical to Biden’s faith outreach director
By Simran Jeet Singh — August 17, 2020
(RNS) — The former community organizer on Chicago’s South Side calls racism ‘the key religious issue of this election.’
How Kamala Harris delivers on 150 years of Black women’s political history
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes — August 13, 2020
(RNS) — The Democrats' presumptive vice presidential nominee rose out of a network of women’s organizations and movements, churches and loving communities by which Black women have transformed themselves since Reconstruction.
Trump couldn’t be more wrong about Biden’s faith
By Melissa Rogers — August 10, 2020
(RNS) — Biden speaks readily and movingly about his personal faith, including the duty to love one’s neighbor. But even more importantly, he lives out his faith on a daily basis.
Mike Pompeo claims the Judeo-Christian tradition for his agenda — a tradition in itself
By Mark Silk — August 5, 2020
(RNS) — Just because it's been embraced by the religious right doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Will Tammy Duckworth be the first deist veep since Thomas Jefferson?
By Steven Waldman — August 5, 2020
(RNS) — If the Illinois senator becomes a national candidate it’s likely the Founding Father’s faith tradition will come to be as controversial as it was in the 19th century.
Blasting lawmakers, USAID official quits over alleged ‘anti-Christian sentiment’
By Jack Jenkins — August 3, 2020
(RNS) — Merritt Corrigan tweeted that she would not be ‘bullied into submission by radical anti-Christian leftists like Cory Booker.’
Patriotic, Catholic and queer: Rebecca Parson’s unorthodox run for Congress
By Simran Jeet Singh — July 31, 2020
RNS — Parson, who would be the first woman and the first LGBT person to represent her district, is also a practicing Catholic who considers her faith an important aspect of her political views.
Don’t be fooled by QAnon’s post-apocalyptic fury. It’s really spiritual hunger.
By Tara Isabella Burton — July 21, 2020
(RNS) — Followers of the online Q and white supremacism yearn for a world in which everything makes sense and where they at last have a role to play.
Surveys suggest protests, not pandemic, have lost Trump white evangelical support
By Ryan Burge — June 24, 2020
(RNS) — Since the protests against the killing of George Floyd began a month ago, a survey shows a 10 percentage point swing among white evangelicals to Joe Biden.
White House tells CDC to butt out of religion
By Mark Silk — May 8, 2020
(RNS) — The government is free to forbid any behavior that threatens life, but the White House disallowed even suggestions on how to avoid being infected by COVID-19.
The mythic punch of the Lincoln Project’s ‘Mourning in America’
By Mark Silk — May 6, 2020
(RNS) — In a takeoff aimed at promises to restore America, Trump becomes the Anti-Reagan.
