evangelicals

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/22/2020
  

  How the Religious Right Has Transformed the Supreme Court

  Law professors Lee Epstein and Eric Posner argue that the conservative bloc on the court has shifted from the libertarianism favored by big business to a more aggressive religious activism. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/18/2020
  

  What Trump Taught America About the Bible

  by Peter Manseau

  The Bible is a powerful talisman for the majority of Americans, but Trump’s successful use of it these past five years suggests that, to many, it is a book whose content matters less than the one holding it; an expression of tribal identity as much as creed.

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  9/6/2020
  

  Trump and Critical Race Theory: What is Really Going On?

  by John Fea

  Trump and his followers want open discourse, debate, and the free exchange of ideas, but only with those ideas that they find agreeable. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  9/4/2020
  

  Topics You’re Not Supposed To Discuss At Dinner: The Role Of Evangelical Religion In U.S. Foreign Policy (Podcast)

  Lauren Turek, Ashlyn Hand and William Inboden discuss how, as Turek documents, in the late 20th century, the specific notion of human rights intersected with evangelical missionaries and their perceptions of the risks associated with communism and other important foreign policy questions, and were able to organize and influence U.S. foreign policy in a new and important way.

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• SOURCE: Saved by History
  8/27/2020
  

  Stars and Stripes and Blasphemy

  by L.D. Burnett

  What we heard from Mike Pence was a white evangelical Christian swapping out the Savior for the United States flag.  

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  8/26/2020
  

  The Last Fundamentalist Empire Died Yesterday in Lynchburg, Virginia

  by John Fea

  Although he oversaw tremendous growth at Liberty University and tried to lead in the culture wars, Jerry Falwell Jr. was unable to maintain credibility as a faith leader necessary to hold his empire. It's unclear whether any evangelical organization can succeed as a business and a theological enterprise. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/26/2020
  

  The Evangelical Left once Had a Home in the GOP. What Happened?

  by John W. Compton

  Evangelical Christians in the political arena today support conservative Republicans. It's not just because the Democratic party moved too far left; the leaders of the New Right purged moderate Evangelicals from the ranks in the 1970s and left the religious left without a clear partisan home. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/18/2020
  

  Is the White Church Inherently Racist? [review]

  Ph.D. candidate in history Jemar Tisby reviews "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8/17/2020
  

  An Interview With ‘Playboy’ Magazine Nearly Torpedoed Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Campaign

  by Rick Perlstein

  Jimmy Carter's 1976 campaign was nearly destroyed by an honest and introspective magazine interview; the fact that the magazine was "Playboy" did not help.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/9/2020
  

  After Falwell Stumbles, His Hometown Sees a Leader in Need of Redemption

  Historians of religion including Grant Wacker, Anthea Butler and John Fea comment on the significance of Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s recent public scandals and the position of Liberty University in the evangelical world. 

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Examining Christian End Times Rhetoric in the Time of COVID

  by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

  Historical amnesia and everyday privilege are what make it seem to some Christians that end prophecies are actively in progress.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/2020
  

  President Trump Must Resist his Base’s Push to Prioritize Faith over Science

  by Erica Ramirez

  Pentecostals have long challenged science and medicine—something that could prove deadly during the covid-19 pandemic.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  An Authoritarian Power Structure Brought Coronavirus to Liberty University

  by Adam Laats

  How one-man rule emerged at fundamentalist colleges and universities.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/4/19
  

  Calling Trump ‘the chosen one’ is a political act — not a theological statement

  by Wallace Best

  Claims about God’s plans for the United States often morph into justifications for wrongdoing.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/30/19
  

  Globally, many evangelicals lean left: What that means for America’s future

  by David C. Kirkpatrick

  Conservatism isn’t the only option for religious voters.

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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.