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Mainline Protestants

religion July 8, 2021

White Evangelicals Now Outnumbered by Mainline Protestants in U.S.Conservative Evangelical triumphalism in religion, culture, and politics is no longer justified by the trends in American life.

By Ed Kilgore
georgia senate runoffs Dec. 2, 2020

Doug Collins’s Sacrilegious Attack on Raphael WarnockGeorgia Republicans are engaged in holy war against Christian minister Warnock and his hallowed Atlanta church.

By Ed Kilgore
June 18, 2018

Trump Border Policies Uniting the Faithful — Against HimFrom religious progressives to Trump’s conservative Evangelical friends, the “zero tolerance” policy is under heavy theological attack.

By Ed Kilgore
May 11, 2018

Americans With No Religion Greatly Outnumber Those Powerful White EvangelicalsWhile conservative evangelicals were busy boasting about their numbers and power, they started shrinking like other U.S. faith communities.

By Ed Kilgore
Jan. 15, 2018

William Barber II and the MLK Legacy of Church-Based ActivismThe North Carolina–based founder of Moral Mondays is a prophetic voice for progressive politics in the MLK mold.

By Ed Kilgore
Dec. 29, 2016

How About Some Democratic Outreach to Liberal People of Faith for a Change?Amid the interminable discussion of what Democrats can do to improve their appeal to Evangelicals, liberal faith communities should not be ignored.

By Ed Kilgore