Pete Buttigieg
Democratic Party is at an inflection point when it comes to courting religious voters
By Ryan Burge — October 1, 2019
(RNS) — Will Democrats continue to try to court the rapidly growing group of religiously unaffiliated Americans, hoping they will offset the losses Democrats are sustaining among white Protestant Christians? Or do they try to make inroads among moderate Christians who have abandoned them in large numbers over the last decade? The answer may decide the 2020 presidential election.
Doctor’s cache of human remains shows the moral cost of practicing abortion
By Charles C. Camosy — September 20, 2019
(RNS) — Participating in our violent throwaway culture leads us to discard our own humanity.
Pete Buttigieg, Mainline Protestant
By Mark Silk — September 11, 2019
And when it comes to climate change, not in a good way.
Buttigieg says ‘reckoning’ coming over GOP and Christianity
By Associated Press — September 5, 2019
(AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says Republicans will face "a reckoning" over a policy agenda he says is out of sync with Christian values.
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.
Buttigieg walks fine line in courting religious left
By Jack Jenkins — August 29, 2019
(RNS) — 'There is something going on that is so much bigger than party politics right now,' Buttigieg said. 'It’s a kind of stirring or reawakening.'
As Democrats vie for African American votes, the Black church is paying attention
By Michael McBride and Leah Daughtry — August 20, 2019
(RNS) — Gaining our vote requires gaining more than a cursory understanding of who we are as a people.
Democratic hopefuls talk prayer and politics at black church forum
By Jack Jenkins — August 16, 2019
(RNS) — Julián Castro, Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker spoke to the 5,000 black millennials in Atlanta, assembled as a joint venture of the Black Church PAC and the Young Leaders Conference.
‘A heavy lift’: Religious black voters weigh Buttigieg’s bid
By The Associated Press — August 16, 2019
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — In South Carolina, part of the dialogue focuses on a conflict between a cultural openness for same-sex marriage and the deeply held religious convictions that could impede support for Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
Democratic candidates are hiring faith outreach directors — but outreach for whom?
By Tara Isabella Burton — July 1, 2019
(RNS) — Ultimately, the best work of campaign faith engagement strategists might not be in changing minds but in getting out the existing Democratic vote.
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.
Why Pete Buttigieg may be reviving ideals of the Social Gospel Movement
By David Mislin — April 18, 2019
(The Conversation) — “Christian faith,” the South Bend, Ind., mayor has said, can lead one “in a progressive direction,” not to mention lead to skepticism about the value of wealth.
