Rod Dreher’s ‘Benedict Option’ Book Excerpt: New Kind of Christian Politics

Editor’s Note: The following piece is adapted from Rod Dreher’s new book, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. Like the people of other Western democracies, Americans are living through a political earthquake shaking the foundations of the postwar order. The old, familiar categories that framed political thought and discourse are […]

Preaching about race: Keeping the big picture in view

About the time I received the request to write this article, a pastor contacted me through social media with some questions. They were sincere and humble questions he had as a white pastor about race and racial injustice—questions he probably did not want to ask publicly. Source: Preaching about race: Keeping the big picture in […]

Could Southern Baptist Russell Moore lose his job?

Concern is mounting among evangelicals that Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s policy arm, could lose his job following months of backlash over his critiques of President Trump and religious leaders who publicly supported the Republican candidate. Any such move could be explosive for the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, which has been divided […]

White Evangelicals Say They Face More Discrimination Than Muslims

In February, pollsters at the Public Religion Research Institute asked Americans about their impressions of discrimination in the United States. Two religious groups were included on the list of those who might face bias: Christians and Muslims. Depending on who was answering, the responses were wildly different.   Source: White Evangelicals Say They Face More […]

White Evangelicals Say They Face More Discrimination Than Muslims 

In February, pollsters at the Public Religion Research Institute asked Americans about their impressions of discrimination in the United States. Two religious groups were included on the list of those who might face bias: Christians and Muslims. Depending on who was answering, the responses were wildly different.   Source: White Evangelicals Say They Face More […]

Evangelical Problems With The Benedict Option

You might have seen Andrew T. Walker’s positive review of The Benedict Option in the Weekly Standard.  I hope you did! His review was cut by the editors for space, which meant that the part wher Source: Evangelical Problems With The Benedict Option | The American Conservative