Back in the early 2000s, when we were outraged by the excesses of authoritarian dilettantes George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, a friend suggested I start a blog. I had been a lawyer, but was eager to ...

Newsweek is out with a slideshow of 10 faces of the Christian right A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump greets Lt. Gov. of Texas Dan Patrick during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White ...

In 1958, the Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell, who would go on to found the Moral Majority, gave a sermon titled “Segregation or Integration: Which?” He inveighed against the Supreme Court’s ...

Super Tuesday and the success of Donald Trump among evangelicals have caused otherwise sensible observers to once again declare the religious right Often used interchangeably with Christian Right, but ...

James Dobson, who founded the conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, died on Thursday. He was 89. Born in ...

Students and faculty from the University of Connecticut came together to hear Angelia Wilson, a professor of politics at the University of Manchester, discuss the impact of the Christian right on ...

Journalist Josiah Hesse discusses his new book on poverty, Pentecostalism, and the politics of the Christian right. Exvangelical memoirs have multiplied over the last decade, so much so that they ...