faith and politics
Paula White and the mainstreaming of American Pentecostalism
By Daniel G. Hummel — November 8, 2019
(Sightings) — Paula White is a new breed of Christian-right leader who is defined far less by theology than by ideology.
Anti-Semitism in the US today is a variation on an old theme
By Pamela S. Nadell — November 6, 2019
(The Conversation) — With anti-Semitism today bombarding American Jews from the right and the left, the moment appears new, but its language is not. It's a very old theme.
Why Joe Biden, blue-collar Catholic icon, may not be enough for the Dems to win
By Ryan Burge — October 22, 2019
(RNS) — Donald Trump has retained his support among the white Catholics who make up 75% of the church and may actually be gaining some ground among nonwhite Catholics.
Trump-drunk tweets touting Paula White book reshape what we expect of SBC pastors
By Costi W. Hinn — October 18, 2019
(RNS) — It is healthy for evangelical leaders to want to influence the president, but when appeasement of Trump extends to promoting someone many Christians would call a false teacher, they risk their reputations.
Good news, bad news on churchgoers’ views of Trump
By Mark Silk — October 5, 2019
(RNS) — In a new Gallup poll, the biggest gap between Trump's job approval rating and how Americans feel about him personally, percentage-wise, comes from weekly churchgoers.
Jagmeet Singh’s civility is praiseworthy, but even nice racism is still racism
By Simran Jeet Singh — October 4, 2019
(RNS) — Celebrating the kind way in which a man told a Canadian politician he should remove his turban misses the point entirely.
How we can use the current crisis in politics and Christianity to reclaim Jesus
By Jim Wallis — September 30, 2019
(RNS) — Reclaiming Jesus is not about making more Christians as much as it is about making Christians more genuinely and redemptively human.
Unetanah Tokef with hyperlinks: Adapting a High Holiday prayer to today’s world
By Jan Zauzmer — September 27, 2019
(RNS) — The fearsome possibilities meditated in the High Holidays prayer Unetanah Tokef strike an elegant balance between predetermination and free will. Here, a version annotated for our times.
Who’s an evangelical and who gets to decide?
By Thomas S. Kidd — September 23, 2019
(RNS) — News stories about ‘evangelicals and politics’ typically only look at ‘self-identifying evangelical white Republicans.’
What Netflix got wrong: The Fellowship’s mission is love, not power
By A. Larry Ross — September 18, 2019
(RNS) — 'The Family' puts forward a false thesis based on anecdotal experience, from which it spins conspiracy theories about political power and international intrigue to fit a biased agenda.
What it means to ‘get’ religion in 2020
By Charles C. Camosy — September 6, 2019
(RNS) — The media sees religion as the 'frosting' rather than the 'cake' of the people they cover. The real substance of a person lies, say, in economic concerns — not the superficial fact of where they go to church.
At first Muslim presidential forum, Sanders reaps adoration of ISNA attendees
By Aysha Khan — September 1, 2019
(RNS) — At the Islamic Society of North America's first-ever presidential forum, both Sanders and Julián Castro underscored the need to build solidarity between communities to turn the tide against President Trump in 2020.
By their tweets you will know them: The Democrats’ continuing God gap
By Ryan Burge — August 30, 2019
(RNS) — If they want to win back the White House, Democrats need to reach Christian voters. At least on social media, Democratic candidates are failing to do so.
Pete Buttigieg: Religious left is ‘stirring’
By Jack Jenkins — August 29, 2019
(RNS) — Buttigieg spoke with Religion News Service to discuss sin, immigration, being a religious millennial and whether he can rally the support of a burgeoning religious left movement.
Amazon fires deepen a split between Brazil’s evangelicals and fellow Christians
By Eduardo Campos Lima — August 28, 2019
SAO PAOLO (RNS) — The apparently intentional escalation of fires in the Amazon rainforest has contributed to a growing political split between Catholics and some Protestant groups and President Jair Bolsonaro's evangelical supporters.
