Bonnie Kristian’s new book aims to unmonster the evangelical brand.

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, ...

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(The Conversation) — A religion scholar explains how evangelicalism in the US is not a monolith. It includes a a variety of churches, theologies and practices. (The Conversation) — A precipitous ...

It seems like an extreme statement to state that evangelicalism will die. In general, I do my best to try and avoid such statements. However, in this particular case, I think this statement is not ...

In the course of his remarks to the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand Summit” on September 14, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler drew familiar lines on some hot button ...

The death spiral of evangelicalism has long been written about in both the religious and mainstream press. The assumption is that evangelicalism has weathered the storms of secularization and ...

Before jumping into this piece, I want to make an acknowledgement. First, Professor Sutton has a new and well-regarded book expanding his argument from the article I discuss here. It just came out, ...

Evangelicalism, American Protestantism’s most vibrant and committed religious movement, is in a bind. Overwhelmingly, self-described evangelicals supported Trump; yet almost as commonly heard as the ...

I could hear the piano playing and people singing—especially the majority-male voices that were louder and carried farther than the female ones. As a newly employed assistant professor of religion, I ...

My father was a hard man. I spent most of my childhood fearing him. He was a product of the American working class who, as he liked to put it, attended the “school of hard knocks.” He served his ...

A precipitous decline in the number of Americans identifying as white evangelical was revealed in Public Religion Research Institute's 2020 Census on American Religion. In 2006, almost a quarter of ...