white evangelicals
Evangelical Christians looking for renewal should look to the margins
By Joshua Stanton and Benjamin Spratt — February 18, 2022
(RNS) — The crisis of church and synagogue is not a crisis of faith, so much as a crisis of purpose.
Immigration reform used to unite faith groups—not anymore
By Jack Jenkins — February 4, 2022
(RNS) — In a new survey, white evangelicals no longer report majority support for creating a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Francis Collins on COVID-19 politics: ‘The culture war is literally killing people’
By Adelle M. Banks — February 3, 2022
(RNS) — Many white evangelicals, said the former head of the National Institutes of Health, have been ‘victimized by the misinformation and lies and conspiracies that are floating around, particularly on social media and some of it in cable news.’
At First Baptist Dallas, white evangelicals line up for Trump’s second coming
By Jacob Lupfer — December 21, 2021
(RNS) — At First Baptist Dallas, Trump continues to reassemble his faith coalition ahead of 2024.
Study: Most white evangelicals don’t want to live in a religiously diverse country
By Yonat Shimron — November 1, 2021
(RNS) — The new American Values Survey from PRRI also shows that 60% of white evangelicals believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen. No other religious group comes close.
What’s a ‘white evangelical’ anyway? It’s hard to pin down
By Jana Riess — October 29, 2021
(RNS) — How do you define white evangelicalism? A fascinating new book argues that people are what they read, so let's start by looking at bestselling novels.
Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day? Getting to the heart of the American identity crisis
By Robert P. Jones — October 8, 2021
(RNS) — This belief in America as a divinely ordained white Christian nation — which has blessed so much brutality in our history — remains linked to denials of our past and support for political violence and anti-democratic sentiment in the present.
Randall Balmer on why racism, not abortion, birthed the religious right
By Yonat Shimron — September 22, 2021
(RNS) — In his new book, he shows it was government interference in ‘segregation academies’ such as Bob Jones University that sparked the growth of the religious right. Opposition to abortion was an afterthought.
Evangelicals: You’re still not really listening to what exvangelicals are saying
By Blake Chastain — August 28, 2021
(RNS) — What the exvangelical narratives often reveal is not a lack of biblical literacy among those who leave — it is a lack of agreement with evangelicals around what the Bible means and teaches.
Abortion just isn’t the motivating issue for evangelicals it once was
By Ryan Burge — August 9, 2021
(RNS) — Studies show white evangelicals, by and large, do not have a hard-line approach to abortion — other issues like immigration and race are taking priority over advocating for the unborn.
William Pannell wrote ‘The Coming Race Wars?’ nearly 30 years ago. It still resonates today
By Alejandra Molina — August 6, 2021
(RNS) — Pannell’s book serves as a historical reflection but 'also as a statement on how far we haven’t come.'
Young evangelicals are leaving church. LGBTQ bias may be driving them away.
By Yonat Shimron — August 6, 2021
(RNS) — As white evangelical denominations double down on their opposition to equality, many younger evangelicals, gay and straight, are voting with their feet.
In many COVID hot spots, a pattern: High concentrations of white evangelicals
By Jack Jenkins — July 15, 2021
(RNS) — ‘It’s clear that the pattern is more white evangelical Protestants equals lower vaccination rates,’ said Natalie Jackson, research director at the Public Religion Research Institute.
Survey: White mainline Protestants outnumber white evangelicals, while ‘nones’ shrink
By Jack Jenkins — July 8, 2021
(RNS) — The ‘unprecedented’ dataset also suggests that white Christian decline, which accelerated in recent years, appears to have slowed.
White Gen X and millennial evangelicals are losing faith in the conservative culture wars
By Terry Shoemaker — June 22, 2021
(The Conversation) — Growing numbers of young evangelicals and 'Exvangelicals' are pro-LGBTQ, support #BlackLivesMatter – or are fed up altogether with mixing faith and politics.
