Republican Party
Bipartisanship is dead; can it be resurrected?
By Thomas Reese — February 20, 2024
(RNS) — Partisanship is baked into our political system because of gerrymandering, primaries and campaign financing.
As we face the grind of a Trump-Biden clash, imagine them buddies for a moment
By Karen Swallow Prior — January 24, 2024
(RNS) — Sometimes fakes serve to remind us of what we rightly desire and ought to pursue.
In Iowa and beyond, evangelical Christian voters follow their party more than their faith
By Bob Smietana — January 12, 2024
(RNS) — An evangelical kingmaker in Iowa warned that Donald Trump's campaign is doomed and is backing Ron DeSantis in the upcoming caucuses. Still, Trump seems poised for an easy win in Iowa and beyond.
The Christian hard line on abortion dooms the GOP
By Mark Silk — November 9, 2023
(RNS) — It’s no longer a political question, but a summons to spiritual warfare.
Mike Johnson’s reading of Scripture misses what it really means to be a Christian nation
By Liz Theoharis — November 2, 2023
(RNS) — The question is, what Scripture is the new House speaker reading?
Mike Johnson, pedigreed evangelical, suggests his election as House speaker ordained by God
By Jack Jenkins — October 25, 2023
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Johnson, who peppered his first speech as speaker with religious references, has a history of challenging interpretations of the separation of church and state.
Can South Carolina’s Haley and Scott woo the GOP’s white evangelical base away from Trump?
By Tiffany Stanley — August 22, 2023
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — Both candidates of color must appeal to their party’s white evangelical base to have a prayer against former President Donald Trump.
Pioneering Christian broadcaster Stuart Epperson dies
By Yonat Shimron — July 18, 2023
(RNS) — Epperson and his brother-in-law, Edward Atsinger, built Salem into a radio powerhouse that became a key communication channel for the religious right and a mainstay of the Republican Party.
When the ‘left’ lectures Muslims on the ‘right’ on LGBTQ curriculums
By Suleiman Hani — July 18, 2023
(RNS) — Are American Muslims conservative or liberal? Democrat or Republican?
Secular Coalition for America confronts Trump’s attacks against atheists
By Fiona André — July 12, 2023
(RNS) — ‘He has used nonreligious people as a punching bag, as he has with many other groups for many years,’ said the director of the coalition.
Can DeSantis break Trump’s hold on the religious right?
By Jacob Lupfer — March 30, 2023
(RNS) — It’s a time for choosing.
Americans like Jews, Catholics and mainline Protestants. Evangelicals, not so much.
By Yonat Shimron — March 15, 2023
(RNS) — A new Pew Research poll finds that only 18% of nonevangelical Americans had favorable opinions of evangelicals; 32% had somewhat unfavorable views.
Democrats pass resolution condemning ‘white religious nationalism’
By Jack Jenkins — February 8, 2023
(RNS) — ‘Theocracy is incompatible with democracy and religious freedom in a pluralistic society,’ the resolution read in part.
Poll: A third of Americans are Christian nationalists and most are white evangelicals
By Yonat Shimron — February 8, 2023
(RNS) — A new PRRI survey finds that 10% of Americans are avowed Christian nationalists and an additional 19% are sympathetic to its ideals. Among white evangelicals, nearly two-thirds are Christian nationalists or sympathizers.
A half-century after Roe, faith groups need to reexamine theology behind abortion politics
By Jacob Lupfer — January 20, 2023
(RNS) — The last time we had religious innovation on the question of abortion came in the 1970s.
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