Trump and the Specter of Christian Withdrawal
Jonathan Tran on James K. A. Smith’s Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology. The Trump presidency provides a kind of Rorschach test for
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American politics
Fear of a Black Planet
On the Unbroken Tradition of White Supremacy in American Politics: A Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power I’m blacker than midnight
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MRBlog | America’s Religion Problem
By Thomas J. Whitley Emma Green’s interview of Michael Wear, the former director of Barack Obama’s faith-outreach efforts, for The Atlantic has many
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The Literary Politics of the Christian Left – by Christopher Douglas
If we want to think about the literary politics of American religion, we might imagine an informal Christian Right alliance between George W.
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Impolite Conversation #13: Using the Bible in Political Debate
In this month’s episode we talk with Frances Flannery, co-editor of the forthcoming book, The Bible in Political Debate: What Does It Really
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Wall Street Goes to War: Hardhat Politics and the Culture War of Everything since the 1960s – L. Benjamin Rolsky
L. Benjamin Rolsky on Stephen Prothero’s Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When they Lose Elections) On the morning of May 8,
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MRBlog | Christian First, American Second: On Prioritizing (and Performing) Presidential Identities
By Thomas J. Whitley Back in September 2015 presidential candidate Ben Carson said that for a Muslim to be president “you have to
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MRBlog | The Genius of Pope Francis’ Subtle Rhetoric
By Thomas J. Whitley Much has been made of Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S. In a supposedly increasingly secular age, it has
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MRBlog | Rand Paul is Running for President (And Against Radical Islam)
By Thomas J. Whitley Rand Paul, Republican senator from Kentucky, announced today that he is running for the President of the United
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