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Jul 28, 2025
There was a time when I believed that the two most powerful sentences in the English language were “I love you” and “I’m sorry.” I now know that those...
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Jun 19, 2025
On Saturday morning, Americans woke up to horrifying news. According to a federal criminal complaint, a man named Vance Boelter had stalked four Minnesota lawmakers and then...
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Jun 5, 2025
But why bring Jesus into it?
America has always been a country with lots of Christian citizens, but it has not always behaved like a Christian country, and for reasons that resonate...
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May 12, 2025
President Trump is no longer the most important American in the world.
He is certainly the most powerful, at least for three more years, but power is only one measure of importance....
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May 1, 2025
There have been two competing narratives about the rise of the Christian right in the United States.
The first story is the one we conservative evangelicals told ourselves: Religious...
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Apr 3, 2025
America needs to nail 95 theses to the megachurch door.
Last month, Paula White, one of President Trump’s most faithful and powerful evangelical supporters and a senior adviser...
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Feb 13, 2025
The new religious right has turned against the old religious right.
Or, to put it another way, the focus of the movement is changing. I spent more than 20 years defending religious...
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Jan 20, 2025
The Supreme Court of Texas just heard oral argument in a case challenging a remarkably punitive and malicious attack on religious liberty by the state of Texas. That attack...