Ronald Reagan
What to do about Ron DeSantis and the GOP’s (literal) demonization of the left
By Robert K. Vischer — June 28, 2021
(RNS) — The resources for resistance are available within Christianity itself.
‘We still have work to do’: How to understand the new Juneteenth holiday
By Paul O'Donnell — June 18, 2021
(RNS) — Theon Hill, an expert on rhetoric, race and social change in American culture, discusses Juneteenth and how holidays in general reflect our realities as well as our aspirations as a nation.
Joe Biden may unify the country. Don’t ask him to unify Catholics.
By Kenneth L. Woodward — April 19, 2021
(RNS) — Faggioli's book pits Pope Francis’ 'global left' and Biden’s 'liberal America' against conservative Catholics.
The US needs an ambassador to the Holy See
By Thomas Reese — March 24, 2021
(RNS) — Joe Biden will soon be the first Catholic president to nominate an ambassador to the Holy See, something that in earlier days would have been anathema to American Protestants who feared the papacy’s political and religious power.
Evangelical Christians once were saved. After Trump, they’re lost.
By Michael O. Emerson and Joel Edward Goza — November 24, 2020
(RNS) — Trump did more than capture white evangelical Christians’ votes: He in many ways became the face of white evangelicalism.
Pompeo’s rights commission distilled decades of evangelicals’ hopes
By Simran Jeet Singh — November 23, 2020
(RNS) — Rights seen as coming directly from God are emphasized over economic justice and fighting the types of abuses exacted by right-wing authoritarian leaders.
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.
In Rome, Pompeo and Brownback invoke glory days of US-Vatican alliance
By Claire Giangravé — October 2, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Invoking the alliance between President Ronald Reagan and St. John Paul II, the secretary of state and Vatican officials stressed religious freedom and other issues on which the current president and pope agree.
How abortion unified Catholics and evangelicals to become a power on the right
By Steven Waldman — May 7, 2019
(RNS) — Abortion politics thawed relations between conservative Catholics and Protestants and indirectly strengthened religious freedom in the United States.
Discovered letter exposes roots of Ronald Reagan’s ‘city on a hill patriotism’
By Mark Silk — September 15, 2018
(RNS) — The president's vision of America, inspired by the Sermon on the Mount, was not a mere rhetorical, or political, device. It was rooted in his own religious identity.
Revisiting Jimmy Carter’s truth-telling sermon to Americans
By The Conversation — July 13, 2018
(The Conversation) — At at time when hypernationalism and xenophobia are increasing in the world, Jimmy Carter's speech — a theological meditation that cautioned against excess, offers a counterexample.
Trump to be sworn in on Lincoln, family Bibles
By Holly Meyer — January 17, 2017
(RNS) It’s not a requirement for the country’s commander in chief to take the oath of office using a Bible, but it’s a presidential inauguration tradition started by George Washington.
On avoiding manic-depressive Christian engagement with culture
By David P. Gushee — September 20, 2016
For faithful Christian witness regardless of circumstances and with a more humble reading of God's actions in history.
The minister who taught Donald Trump to ‘think positive’
By Mitch Horowitz — June 3, 2016
(RNS) The decades-old critique of Norman Vincent Peale has never gotten it quite right.
Yes, Trump is selling Reaganism
By Mark Silk — May 9, 2016
Its essence, not its ideological superstructure.
