white evangelicals

Why white evangelicals voted for Trump: Fear, power and nostalgia

By Jana Riess — July 2, 2018
(RNS) — Eighty-one percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, but why? Especially when there were three experienced evangelical candidates in the primary season? Historian John Fea traces a legacy of fear, power, and nostalgia among white evangelical voters.

White evangelicals are not the (only) problem

By Mark Silk — March 23, 2018
It's other white religious folks too.

John Pavlovitz, digital pastor of the resistance, pitches a bigger Christian tent

By Yonat Shimron — March 15, 2018
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Fans are eager to hear straight talk from a man who professes Christianity but criticizes the church and its leaders for their hypocrisy or silence in the face of today’s injustices.

RNS Best of 2017: All the president’s clergy: A close look at Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ ties with evangelicals

By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 1, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — RNS interviews with key participants suggest that a cadre of conservative Christian religious leaders has the ear of the politically powerful on matters of national priority.

The Rev. David Gushee: A crossroads for white evangelicals

By David P. Gushee — December 21, 2017
(RNS) We asked the Rev. David Gushee, a prominent Christian ethicist, to consider what 2018 will mean for religion.

‘Trumpvangelicals’ top religion journalists’ poll

By Kimberly Winston — December 15, 2017
(RNS) — And the president himself tops the list of religion newsmakers of the year — despite his lack of church attendance and biblical literacy.

White evangelicals in Alabama

By Mark Silk — October 18, 2017
Even they have their doubts about Roy Moore

The apotheosis of the religious right

By Mark Silk — September 19, 2017
His name is Judge Roy Moore.

All the president’s clergymen: A close look at Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ ties with evangelicals

By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 5, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — RNS interviews with key participants suggest that a cadre of conservative Christian religious leaders has the ear of the politically powerful on matters of national priority.

Parallel lives? Trump and Berlusconi

By Massimo Faggioli — November 12, 2016
(RNS) Similarities to Italy’s former prime minister should make Trump-supporting Christians nervous.

White evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons carried Trump

By Lauren Markoe — November 9, 2016
(RNS) Evangelical support for Donald Trump surged even as prominent evangelicals, including Southern Baptist Russell Moore, railed against Trump's behavior toward immigrants, women and other groups as un-Christian.

Like it or not, most expect gay marriage will sweep the US

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — June 11, 2015
(RNS) Although the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage looms, public attention already is shifting toward new, contentious issues over LGBT rights, a new survey finds.

Embattled evangelicals: ‘War on religion’ is aimed at us

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — September 23, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) White evangelicals, more than any other religious group, worry that the government will interfere with their religious liberty.

Survey: most Americans keep faith private online

By Chris Lisee — August 2, 2012

(RNS) A new survey finds that Americans, while mostly religious, do not use social media to supplement worship and mostly keep their faith private online. By Chris Lisee.

Poll: Romney may see an evangelical ‘enthusiasm gap’

By Daniel Burke — July 26, 2012

(RNS) Most Americans who know that Mitt Romney is Mormon say the presumptive GOP nominee’s faith doesn’t concern them. But a new poll indicates there may be an “enthusiasm gap” for Romney among white evangelicals. By Daniel Burke.

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