Subterms
Amid the evasions and distortions lies evidence that Ralph Reed knows, really, that religion and politics can mix to noble ends – just not under this president Donald Trump prays at his desk in the Oval Office, as he participates in an Easter Blessing. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Ralph Reed, an evangelical leader […] More
With help from a vast evangelical network and data on almost the entire US voting population, the Christian right may have found the boost it needed By his own account, Bill Dallas grew up in an unhappy household. His mother had been sexually abused by her father and had her first pregnancy aged 17. Dallas’s […] More
Donald Trump Trump has handed his ultra-loyal evangelical base policy victories and in return they turn a blind eye to his scandals Trump supporters at a rally for evangelical Christians at the King Jesus International Ministry in Miami on 3 January 2020. Photograph: Lynne Sladky/AP Joanne Craig, a lifelong evangelical Republican and resident of Sioux […] More
Atheism ‘I prefer non-religious’: why so few US politicians come out as atheists Non-believers remain few and far between in US politics, with atheism bringing ‘the notion of being anti-religion’, the California representative Jared Huffman explains Members of the US Congress during a prayer circle on 18 June 2015 in front of the US Capitol […] More
