Journalist Josiah Hesse discusses his new book on poverty, Pentecostalism, and the politics of the Christian right.
The revival at Asbury University in Kentucky remains a head-scratcher for Christian insiders and agnostic outsiders alike. Indeed, the Asbury revival has even mystified Protestants who stress a ...
OAK PARK, Ill. (RNS) — A conference about the future of the nation’s largest religious tradition began with a bit of honesty. “Nobody knows exactly what an evangelical is,” said Joel Lawrence, ...
You know—mysticism, the Kabbalah, alchemy, Paracelsianism. Mysticism. The Kabbalah. Alchemy. Paracelsianism. These aren’t subjects that one usually associates with evangelicalism. But according to W.
Right-wing politics is creating divisions inside the evangelical church. The Atlantic's Tim Alberta writes that he's spent his life "watching evangelicalism morph from a spiritual disposition into a ...
A new collection of the the late author’s writings, Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining ...
Today’s public discussion of Christian nationalism is led in part by a group of conservative anti-Trump evangelicals, many of whom write for centrist or center-left publications. Yet, for all their ...
Tim Alberta’s recent book about the Christian nationalist takeover of American evangelicalism, “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory,” is full of preachers and activists on the religious right ...
In this erudite survey, Van Loon (Translating Your Past) takes a hard look at what’s worth keeping from the last 50-odd years of evangelicalism. Rooting her account in minister Phyllis Tickle’s notion ...
“I’ve never been so cold in all my life,” Billy Graham proclaimed to a crowd of 1.1 million in Seoul in 1973. During those dark days of South Korean military dictatorship, Graham began his sermon by ...
Randall Balmer, a graduate of Des Moines Hoover High School, is the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College and the author of "Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter." In October 1975 a ...