Evangelicals Show No Decline, Despite Trump and Nones
The 2018 General Social Survey reports American evangelicals holding steady amid growth of the unaffiliated—and a surprising uptick for mainline Protestants.
Unraveling the Chicken-and-Egg Puzzle Behind the ‘God Gap’ in Voting
Do people choose their politics on the basis of their religion, or is it the other way around?
Who Counts? How to Rightly Divide American Christianity
The academy’s debate over black church differences is more than a numbers game.
Counting the Cost: DR Congo Demonstrates Difficulty of Measuring Martyrdom
(UPDATED) How to classify Christian deaths in DRC is crux of persecution debate.
Editor’s Note from January 05, 2016
Issue 39: Your brain’s missing links, the scales of justice, and why seeing sin is such a relief.
Why God Delights in the Metric System
Fairness and justice were difficult before we looked to creation for our measurements.
Jerry Falwell Jr. Endorses Donald Trump; Here’s How Other Evangelicals Compare
(UPDATED) Yes, ‘The Donald’ draws five times more admiration than Billy Graham. But polls of religiosity and leaders tell a different tale.
‘Same God’ Standoff: Wheaton College, Suspended Professor Hold Ground, Miroslav Volf Weighs In
Debate continues over Larycia Hawkins’s explanation (not act) of wearing a hijab during Advent.
Wheaton Faculty Council Unanimously Asks College To Keep Larycia Hawkins
(UPDATED) 78 Wheaton professors affirm Hawkins’s theology. Diversity committee raises discrimination concerns.
Beyond Asia Bibi: International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church 2015
(UPDATED) A roundup of the good and the bad reported by international religious freedom watchdogs.