evangelicals

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/21/19
  

  White evangelicals once admitted they were wrong about Nixon. Will Trump come next?

  by Anja-Maria Bassimir and Elesha J. Coffman

  White evangelicals voted 84 percent for Richard Nixon in 1972 and 80 percent for Donald Trump in 2016. And many of the leaders stood by Nixon as scandals swirled around him, just as they have with Trump.

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• SOURCE: Process
  3/18/19
  

  Evangelicals and Immigration: A Conflicted History

  by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen

  Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busy resettling the newly arrived refugees. 

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• 12/30/2018
  

  Trump’s White Evangelicals are Nostalgic for an American Past that Never Existed for Blacks and Others

  by John Fea

  Indulging the practice of nostalgia is inherently selfish because it focuses entirely on their own experience of the past and not on the experience of others.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-28-18
  

  How Evangelicals Reshaped Elections

  In the early 1970s, many evangelical Christians weren’t active in politics. Within a few years they had reshaped American politics for a generation.

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• 9/23/18
  

  What’s Ironic About Trump’s Evangelical Support for His Campaign Against Kneeling Football Players

  by Emma Long

  In the 1950s, evangelicals defended the right of individuals to refuse to participate in an otherwise mandatory event on the grounds of their belief.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-12-18
  

  Trump and the Return of Divine Right

  by David Armitage

  In deploying his pardon power freely and using the Bible to justify family separation, the president is exactly the sort of ruler that Enlightenment thinkers feared.

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• SOURCE: From The Desk
  6-19-18
  

  John Fea’s new book sets out to explain why 81% of white American evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in 2016

  The book: “Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6-24-18
  

  Evangelical Fear Elected Trump

  by John Fea

  The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear—but it also contains an alternative.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-15-18
  

  Randall Stephens predicts most evangelicals will probably fail to come to grips with Trump’s cynical manipulations, his divisive, culture-war grandstanding, his philandering, and his lying

  by Randall J. Stephens

  They’ll continue to vote Republican as they did after Nixon’s fall.

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• SOURCE: Publishers Weekly
  4-11-18
  

  An Anti-Trumper Evangelical Weighs in on Trump's True Believers

  Historian John Fea on faith, fear, and politics.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-26-18
  

  How evangelical support of Trump helped to bring pornography into the mainstream

  by John Fea

  The court evangelicals do not condone Trump’s behavior. But neither do they say they think that his indiscretions are in any way harmful to his presidency.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3-19-18 (accessed)
  

  The Last Temptation

  by Michael Gerson

  How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo
  2-23-18
  

  Eric Metaxas, evangelical intellectual, chose Trump, and he's sticking with him

  “Not only can we vote for Trump, we must vote for Trump.”

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2-18-18
  

  Dartmouth’s Randall Balmer: Under Trump, America's religious right is rewriting its code of ethics

  by Randall Balmer

  From scorning immigrants to accepting the president’s profanity, evangelicals are proving just how flexible their values can be, says the religious history professor.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-1-18
  

  How white evangelicals learned to love Donald Trump

  by Emily S. Johnson

  Evangelical support for the president reflects four decades of political lessons.

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• 1/21/18
  

  Does Trump’s Religion Matter?

  by Walter G. Moss

  And what exactly should believers want from a president?

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• 12-26-17
  

  For Those Who Have Traded Faith for Power, There’s a Comeuppance Ahead

  by Ed Simon

  It’s written that nobody can serve two masters, but many evangelicals seem content to try.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12-8-17
  

  Why Trump’s evangelical supporters welcome his move on Jerusalem

  by Julie Ingersoll

  The nation of Israel and the role of the city of Jerusalem are central in the “end-times” theology – a form of what is known as “pre-millennialism” – embraced by many American conservative Protestants. ​

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  4-3-17 (accessed)
  

  Where Evangelicals Came From

  by Garry Wills

  Trump has a style that seems like no style to the “proper” viewer, the “politically correct.” But it's familiar to evangelicals.

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• SOURCE: The Wheaton Record
  3-20-17
  

  Mark Noll says evangelicals voted for Trump for lots of reasons, abortion among them

  "But I’m worried about the Christian populace at large listening all the time to their media go-to and never being concerned about folks who are trying to see things more broadly."