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Select Media Mentions:
- Chris Lehmann, “Trump’s Embrace of QAnon Realizes the Dream of the Religious Right,” The Nation, September 23, 2022.
- Charles Thompson, “Doug Mastriano doesn’t call himself a Christian nationalist, but he gives it a platform,” Harrisburg Patriot-News, September 16, 2022.
- Mike Hixenbaugh, “How a far-right, Christian cellphone company ‘took over’ four Texas school boards,” NBC News, August, 25, 2022.
- Rodney Kennedy, “The American history some people wish weren’t true,” Baptist News Global, August 25, 2022.
- Sam Dunklau, “Doug Mastriano and some Pa. GOP leaders thing Christianity and government should be linked,” WITF Radio, August 10, 2022.
- Mark Wingfield, “Al Mohler derides a dead man, and the dead man’s friends aren’t happy,” Baptist News Global, August 8, 2022.
- Rodney Kennedy, “The Evangelical Double-Tongue of Hypocrisy,” Word & Way, August 1, 2022.
- James Walsh, “The Potato Roll Empire Bankrolling a Christian Nationalist,” New York Magazine, June 14, 2022.
- Michelle Boorstein, “Christian nationalism is shaping a Pa. primary–and a GOP shift,” The Washington Post, May 16, 2022.
- Mike Argento, “Abortion in Pa. won’t be illegal is Roe v. Wade is overturned,” York Daily Record/USA Today, May 4, 2022.
- Kathryn Post, “Grove City College rejects ‘wokeness,’ CRT in new report,” Religion News Service, April 25, 2022.
- Liam Adams, “The evolution of Greg Locke,” Tennessean, April 20, 2022.
- Kathryn Post, “Grove City College caught in crossfire of evangelical CRT battles,” Religion News Service, March 11, 2022.
- Josh Wood, “LMPD Training Materials Portrayed Police as Avengers Who Carry Out God’s Wrath,” LEO Weekly (Louisville), March 11. 2022.
- Liam Adams, “Southern Baptist Convention debates what to say about Christian nationalism,” Tennessean, January 24, 2022.
- Karen Lajon, “Les évangéliques partent en croisade pour Trump,” Le Journal Du Dimanche, December 26, 2021.
- Natalie Richman, “Who is Mark Krause: Texas lawmaker who launched book probe has other jobs that illustrate worldview,” Dallas Morning News, November 18, 2021.
- Sam Kestenbaum, “The Trump Prophets Regroup,” The New York Times, September 19, 2021.
- Molly Olmstead, “The Uproar Over the ‘Ultimate American Bible‘, Slate, September 15, 2021.
- Gina Cilberto, “When Conspiracy Theories Come to Church,” Sojourners, June 2021.
- Eliza Griswold, “A Pennsylvania Lawmaker and the Resurgence of Christian Nationalism,” The New Yorker, May 9, 2021.
- Ruth Graham, “Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk Leaves Liberty University Think Tank,” New York Times, March 16, 2021.
- Hannah Sparks, “Atheists are more likely to get vaccinated, survey finds,” New York Post, March 9, 2021.
- Yonat Schimron, “Black Protestants aren’t least likely to get a vaccine; white evangelicals are,” Religion News Service, March 5, 2021.
- CBS News Video Documentary, “The Right’s Fight to Make America a Christian Nation,” released March 4, 2021.
- Marc Fisher, “Eroding trust, spreading fear: The historical ties between pandemics and extremism,” The Washington Post, February 15, 2021.
- Kate Graham, “Ravi Zacharias, Influential Evangelists, Is Accused of Sexual Abuse in Scathing Report,” The New York Times, February 11, 2021.
- Alexis Buisson, “Donald Trump has left his mark on evangelicals,” LaCroix, February 10, 2021.
- Maureen Groppe, “How Biden’s Catholic faith is shaping his social equity agenda–and getting pushback from conservatives,” USA Today, February 4, 2021.
- Rachel Mikva, “Christian nationalism is a threat, and not just from Capitol attackers invoking Jesus,” USA Today, January 31, 2021.
- Yonat Shimron, “Two faiths dominate Biden’s Cabinet picks,” The Washington Post, January 22, 2021.
- Jacques Berlinerblau, “Bad Religion in the Ivory Tower,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 21, 2021.
- Nicolas Berube,’ “Elections will never be the same,” La Presse(Quebec), January 21, 2021.
- Nicolas Berube, “It’s very risky” (Biden inauguration),” La Presse (Quebec), January 20, 2021.
- Ivey DeJesus, “Some evangelicals who backed President Trump are doing soul searching after Capitol attacks,” Harrisburg Patriot News/Penn Live, January 15, 2021.
- Jim Krapf, “Repeated belief crisis can be solved by heling neighbors,” Worthingon (MN) Globe, January 15, 2021.
- Brian Kaylor, “Mohler should step down from Southern Baptist leadership after embracing Trump,” Louisville Courier Journal, January 13, 2021.
- Gina Cilberto and Stephanie Russell-Kraft, “They Invaded the Capitol Saying “Jesus is My Savior. Trump is My President,” Sojourners, January 6, 2021.
- Yonat Shimron, “What to Expect on the Religious Scene in 2021,” Religion News Service, December 31, 2020.
- Emily McFarland Miller, “Student-led petition calls for Liberty University to close Falkirk Center, its political think tank,” Religion News Service, December 30, 2020.
- Carol Kuruvilla, “Why Some Evangelicals Refuse to Acknowledge That Trump Has Lost The Election,” Huffington Post, December 2, 2020.
- Nicolas Berube, “Parti republicain: pourquoi Trump a mieux fait que prevu,” La Presse, November 8, 2020.
- Henri Ouellette-Vezina, “Une possible vague de violence a venir, selon des experts,” La Presse (Quebec), November 6, 2020.
- Gina Cilberto and Lexi McMenamin, “Christians By Lyin,” Sojourners, November 5, 2020.
- Carol Kuruvilla, “These Evangelicals Voted for Trump in 2016. They Refuse to Do It Again,” Huffington Post, November 1, 2020.
- Alex Morris, “Donald Trump: The End-Times President,” Rolling Stone, October 30, 2020.
- “Pray for Our President,” Inside Higher Ed, October 30, 2020.
- “Wint Trump de verkiezingen?,” Reformatorisch Dagblad, October 29, 2020.
- Oma Seddiq, “‘Barret is like Jesus’ for evangelical voters,” Business Insider, October 28, 2020.
- Luis Beaton, “Habrá una guerra civil en Estados Unidos?,” Al Mayadeem Network, October 26, 2020.
- “Evangelicals and the 2020 Election,” The Takeaway (WNYC Radio), October 21, 2020.
- Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “Evangelical leaders are a reliable clientele for the Trump hotel in Washington,” The Washington Post, October 16, 2020.
- JP Keenan and Ivan Periera, “For many white evangelicals, the Supreme Court makeup solidifies their support for President Trump,” ABC News, October 16, 2020.
- Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “Amy Coney Barrett’s People of Praise ties highlight charismatic Christianity,” Washington Post, October 7, 2020.
- Emma Brown, Jon Swaine and Michelle Boorstein, “Amy Coney Barrett served as a ‘handmaid’ in Christian group People of Praise,” Washington Post, October 6, 2020.
- Gerardo Lissardy, “Da para vencer eleicao sem Jesus? Come evangelicos se tornaram crucias para Trump,” BBC Mundo, October 6, 2020.
- Nicolas Berube, “Mike Pence, Le Bon Soldat Dans L’Ombre De Trump, La Presse, October 3, 2020.
- Nicolas Berube, “Towards the presidential election: What could Donald Trump’s second term look like?,” EN24, September 28, 2020.
- Renzo Ruf, “‘Actions speak louder than words,’ says a devout Protestant of President Trump (translation),” Luzerner Zeitung, September 26, 2020.
- Yonat Shimron, “Franklin Graham borrows a tactic from the left with his Saturday prayer march,” Religion News Service, September 25, 2020.
- Mark Scolfaro, “Evangelicals at base of Trump hopes for Pennsylvania repeat,” Associated Press, September 19, 2020.
- Liam Adams, “Christian Colleges Are Changing to Survive. Is It Working?” Christianity Today, September 9, 2020.
- Jonathan Tilove, “Let he who is without sin cast Roger Stone,” Austin American-Statesman August 31, 2020.
- Emily McFarland Miller and Jack Jenkins, “How Trump’s Republican National Convention speech wove faith into the ‘great American story.'” Religion News Service, August 28, 2020.
- Ian Lovett, “Jerry Falwell Resigns as Liberty University President,” Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2020.
- Yonat Shimron, “Jerry Falwell still negotiating his resignation from Liberty University,” Religion News Service, August 24, 2020.
- W. James Antle III, “Trump’s Christian soldiers,” Washington Examiner, August 20, 2020.
- Emily McFarland Miller, “Why Jerry Falwell Jr.’s social medial ‘yacht’ posts were the final straw for Liberty University,” Religion News Service, August 15, 2020.
- Sarah Rankin and Elana Schorr, “Liberty University and Falwell: A Bond That’s Hard to Break,” Associated Press, August 14, 2020.
- Aishvarya Kavi and Rick Rojas, “After Falwell Stumbles, His Hometown Sees a Leader in Need of Redemption,” The New York Times, August 9, 2020.
- Ian Lovett, “Jerry Falwell Jr. Takes Leave as President of Liberty University,” Wall Street Journal, August 7, 2020.
- Linda Feldman, “How Trump is moving heaven and earth to motivate evangelical voters,” Christian Science Monitor, August 5, 2020.
- Joel Anderson, “Liberty University Poured Millions Into Sports. Now Its Black Athletes Are Leaving,” Slate, August 2, 2020.
- Jennifer Schuessler, “Clash of Historians: Paper on Andrew Jackson and Trump Causes Turmoil,” The New York Times, July 24, 2020.
- Peter Nicholas, “Mike Pence’s Plan to Save Trump–And Himself,” The Atlantic, July 8, 2020.
- Peter Smith, “Historians assess ‘troubling’ Confederate monuments at Gettysburg,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 5, 2020.
- Lucia Leal, “La busqueda del voto evangelico, una de las claves de la politica de Trump hacia Israel y su plan de anexion de Cisjordania,” Agencia EFE, July 1, 2020.
- Seema Mehta, “Could Supreme Court rebukes of Trump policy cost him critical support from white evangelical voters?” Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2020.
- Jack Jenkins, “In the wake of rocky polling, Trump camp doubles down on conservative Christians,” Religion News Service, June 24, 2020.
- Gabby Orr, “Trump allies see a mounting threat: Biden’s rising evangelical support,” Politico, June 21, 2020.
- Peter Brennan, “Trump is a ‘spiritual danger,’ evangelical writers warn,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 19, 2020.
- Carol Kuruvilla, “Trump’s Approval Among White Catholics Has Slipped,” Huffington Post, June 5, 2020.
- Matthew Teague, “Trump’s Bible photo op splits white evangelical loyalists into two camps,” The Guardian, June 4, 2020.
- Matthew Teague, “He wears the armor of God’: evangelicals hail Trump’s church photo op,” The Guardian, June 3, 2020.
- Carol Kuruvilla, “Trump Defends Church Photo-Op: ‘I Think It Was Very Symbolic‘,” Huffington Post, June 3, 2020.
- David Roos, “Thomas Jefferson Signed the Insurrection Act in 1807 to Foil a Plot by Aaron Burr,” History.com, June 3, 2020.
- Steven Kurutz, “Ravi Zacharias, Preacher Who Used Reason to Defend Faith, Dies at 74,” The New York Times, May 27, 2020.
- Jonathan Tilove, “First Reading,” Austin-American Statesman, May 26, 2020.
- Joe Harris,. “US Lockdown Protests Fueled by Distrust of Government, Experts,” Courthouse News Service, May 14, 2020.
- Edward Tian, “Professor John Murrin, prolific historian of early American, dies at 84 of COVID-19,” The Daily Princetonian, May 9, 2020.
- George J. Bryjak, “Morally bankrupt bluster and bravado,” Adirondack Daily Enterprise, March 11, 2020.
- James Walker, “Trump Call for Sotomayor and Ginsburg Recusals is Step Toward Defying Supreme Court Decision,” Newsweek, February 25, 2020.
- Rob Boston, “False Idol: Are Hairline Cracks Appearing in Trump’s Evangelical Base?” Americans United for Separation of Church and State Magazine, February 20, 2020.
- Carol Kuruvilla, “Trump Struggles With Basic Christian Teaching At National Prayer Breakfast,” Huffington Post, February 6, 2020.
- Griffin Paul Jackson, “The 7 People Christians Trust More Than Their Pastors,” Christianity Today, January 4, 2020.
- Robert P. Sellers, “Trump’s Impeachment: A trial of biblical proportions,” Baptist News Global, January 22, 2020.
- “How Evangelicals Feel About Trump Right Now,” The Brian Lehrer Show–WNYC-New York, December 30, 2019.
- Nicole Narea, “One surprisingly simple reason evangelicals love Trump,” VOX, December 27, 2019.
- Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “Trump’s hell suggestion outraged some faith leaders, but his evangelical advisers are still defending him,” Washington Post, December 19, 2019.
- Peter Smith, “Clash over Trump underscores evangelicals’ diversity,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 26, 2019.
- Adelle Banks. “Retiring NAE head Leith Anderson: Evangelicals not just white or political,” Religion News Service, November 27, 2019.
- Julie Zauzmer, “Rick Perry, under scrutiny for his Ukraine trip, says Trump is God’s ‘chosen one,'” Washington Post, November 25, 2019.
- Carol Kuruvilla, “Evangelical Alliances Praise Trump After Exclusive Meeting At Impeachment Talk Heats Up,” Huffington Post, October 31, 2019.
- Haley Branson-Potts, “Church preaches LGBTQ hate near California capitol,” Los Angeles Times, August 2, 2019.
- Tom McCarthy, “Faith and freedoms: why evangelicals profess unwavering love for Trump,” The Guardian, July 7, 2019.
- Erasmus, “When American evangelicals fall out,” The Economist, July 5, 2019.
- Daniel Burke, “Franklin Graham wants the nation to pray for Trump on Sunday. But other Christians call it propoganda,” CNN May 31, 2019.
- Max Larkin, “Facing Rising Coasts and Charges of Intolerance, Gordon College Plots A Future,” WBUR-Boston, May 20, 2019.
- Elizabeth Redden, “Liberal Arts Cuts, Evangelical Edition,” Inside Higher Ed, May 16, 2019.
- Adelle M. Banks, “Billy Graham archives to move from Wheaton College to his North Carolina library,” Religion News Service, March 29, 2019.
- John Sharp, “Faith takes center stage in ferocious Alabama Senate campaign,” Alabama.com, March 6, 2019.
- Jonathan Tilove, “Rick Perry redux: Heading back to Texas and into the headlines,” Austin-American Statesman, November 30, 2019.
- Tara Isabella Burton, “Why (white” evangelicals still support Trump,” VOX, November 5, 2018.
- Andrew West, “The impact of al-Baghdadi’s death on US voters,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, October 30, 2109.
- Menachem Wecker, “For Many Immigration Activists, Welcoming ‘Strangers’ Is an Act of Faith,” Religion & Politics, October 22, 2019.
- Yonat Schimron, “Franklin Graham on impeachment: ‘Our country could begin to unravel,'” Religion News Service, October 2, 2019.
- Bonnie Kristian, “The right’s refusal to look in a mirror,” The Week, September 12, 2019.
- Anja-Maria Bassimir and Elesha Coffman, “White evangelicals once admitted they were wrong about Nixon. Will Trump come next?,” Washington Post, August 21, 2019.
- Carol Kuruvilla, “How a Nationalistic Strain of Christianity Is Subtly Shaping America’s Gun Debate,” Huffington Post, August 6, 2019.
- Jack Jenkins, “From cruise ships to Trump’s hotel, Calvinist Christian nationalism is making moves,” Religion News Service, July 8, 2019.
- Hollis Phelps and L. Benjamin Rolsky, “After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump,” Religion Dispatches, May 23, 2019.
- Adeel Hassan and Alan Blinder, “Alabama Executes a Murderer a Day After Bannin Abortions,” The New York Times, May 16, 2019
- Yonat Schimron, “Did Jerry Falwell’s personal photos violate Christian sexual codes,” Religion News Service, May 9, 2019.
- Julie Zauzmer, “The alleged synagogue shooter was a churchgoer who talked Christian theology, raising tough questions for evangelical pastors,” Washington Post, May 1, 2019.
- Jack Jenkins, “Franklin Graham challenges Pete Buttigieg, but voters unlikely to care,” Religion News Service, April 26, 2019
- Carol Kuruvilla, “White Evangelicals Are Still Loyal Trump Fans, But Small Divisions Could Be Brewing,” Huffington Post, March 19, 2019.
- Joanna Piacenza, “Majority of Public Calls Trump’s Bible Signing Inappropriate,” Morning Consult, March 18, 2019.
- Reis Thebault and Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “President Trump autographed Bibles for survivors of the Alabama tornado outbreak,” Washington Post, March 8, 2019.
- Jerome Socolovsky, “Evangelicals Seek Detente With Mideast Muslim Leaders as Critics Doubt Motives,” National Public Radio, January 2, 2019.
- Kate Shellnutt, “Hundreds Accuse Independent Baptist Pastors of Abuse,” Christianity Today, December 12, 2018.
- Bob Allen, “A millennial martyr?: The complicated legacy of John Allen Chau,” Baptist News Global, November 29, 2018.
- Tara Isabella Burton, “The Bible says to welcome immigrants. So why don’t white evangelicals?” VOX October 30, 2018.
- “Profile: Who is Andrew Brunson, the US pastor released by Turkey,” Al Jazeera, October 12, 2018.
- Emily McFarland Miller, “Is America a Christian nation? Metaxas, Fea offer competing views,” Religion News Service, September 27, 2018.
- Steve Rabey, “New film highlights belief that Trump’s election was God’s plan,” Religion News Service, September 26, 2018.
- Tara Isabella Burton, “What one pastor’s anti-Nike protest says about religion and nationalism in America,” VOX September 14, 2018.
- Samuel Smith, “Liberty U. Film Students Object to ‘Trump Prophecy ‘ Movie Project,” The Christian Post, September 1, 2018.
- Sarah McCammon, “Religion, The Supreme Court and Why it Matters,” National Public Radio, July 7, 2018.
- Michelle Boorstein, “The ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ in church? Some Christians are questioning the mix of patriotism and God,” Washington Post, July 1, 2018.
- Harry Bruinius, “Family separation: Evangelicals add their voices to opposition,” Christian Science Monitor, June 18, 2018.
- Nesrine Malik, “Trump is creating his American caliphate and democracy has no defence,” The Guardian, June 18, 2018.
- Emily Stewart, “Jeff Sessions cited a Bible passage used by American slaveholders to defend Trump’s family separation policy,” VOX, June 15, 2018.
- Nick Allen, “Jeff Sessions says the Bible justifies separating children from illegal immigrant parents at US border,” The Telegraph, June 15, 2018
- Tara Isabella Burton, “Mike Pence will address Southern Baptists–just as they’re reckoning with race and sexual misconduct,” VOX, June 12, 2018.
- Yonat Shimron, “Employees quit American Bible Society over sex and marriage rules,” Religion News Service, May 29, 2018.
- Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “This conservative Christian guide to the nation’s capital vows to tell you what other tours won’t.” Washington Post, May 15, 2018.
- Ruth Graham, “The Pundit Pastor,” Slate May 14, 2018.
- Jack Jenkins, “Falwell: By Liberty University’s definition, it’s still the largest Christian university,” Religion News Service, April 30, 2018.
- Brandon Showalter, “‘Lynchburg Revival’ Takes Stand Against “Toxic’ Evangelicalism, “America First’ Christianity,” The Christian Post, April 7, 2018.
- David Brockman, “Evangelical Support of Donald Trump,” Texas Observer, March 29, 2018.
- Tara Isabella Burton, “The biblical story the Christian right uses to defend Trump,” VOX, March 5, 2018.
- Michelle Boorstein, “Billy Graham is the first religious leader to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol. Some say he should be the last,” Washington Post, March 1, 2018.
- Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “‘Hated and evil’: How Trump follows a familiar script after national tragedies,” Washington Post, February 15, 2018.
- Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “Trump’s National Prayer Breakfast speech infused with God-and-country references,” Washington Post, February 8, 2018.
- Benjamin Wallace-Wells, “Roy Moore and the Invisible Religious Right,” The New Yorker, December 9, 2017.
- Yonat Shimron, “Why Evangelicals might vote for Roy Moore, despite sexual abuse allegations,” USA Today, November 24, 2017.
- Rachel Zoll, “Museum of the Bible, built by Hobby Lobby owner, opens in DC,” Associated Press, November 16, 2017.
- Emily McFarland Miller, “All the president’s clergymen: A close look at Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ ties with evangelicals,” Religion News Service, September 5, 2017.
- Alex Macon, “Robert Jeffress, Court Evangelical,” Dallas Magazine, August 9, 2017.
- Marc Fisher, “For some evangelicals, a choice between Moore and morality,” Washington Post, November 16, 2017.
- Matt Kwong, “‘A Bible nation from the beginning’: A preview of Washington’s controversial $500M Museum of the Bible,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, November 12, 2017.
- Jon Ward, “Laying on hands: When Trump needs support, he calls on pastors, and they call on him,” Yahoo News, October 13, 2017.
- Colleeen Flaherty, “Divinity, Diversity and Division,” Inside Higher Ed, May 9, 2017.
- Lauren Markoe, “Pastor resigns from Trump’s evangelical advisory board, asks others to speak out,” Religion News Service, August 19, 2017.
- Emily McFarland Miller, “Evangelical Christians celebrate and urge unity; others wary,” Religion News Service, November 9, 2016.”
- Sarah McCammon, “A Civil War History Lesson on Trump’s Visit to Gettysburg,” National Public Radio, October 23, 2016.
- Emily McFarland Miller, “Is Donald Trump now a born-again Christian?,” Religion News Service, June 25, 2016.
- “To Elect Godly Leaders, Evangelicals in U.S. Politics, Interfaith Radio, May 26, 2016.
- Scott Jaschik, “Best Acknowledgments Ever?” Inside Higher Ed, January 11, 2016.
- Michelle Conlin, “For God and country: more U.S. pastors seek political office in 2016,” Reuters, December 11, 2015.
- Tom Gjelten, “Reconsidering the Pilgrims, Piety And America’s Founding Principles,” National Public Radio, November 26, 2015.
- Scott Jaschik, “To Avoid Split on Gay Marriage, 2 Colleges Quit Christian Group,” Inside Higher Ed, September 22, 2015.
- Lisa Rose, “Flashback to great ‘tea burning’ of 1774, the pride of a South Jersey town,” NJ.com, March 29, 2014.
- Christian Alexandersen, “History scholar: Prayer did not come from George Washington,” March 28, 2014.
- Morgan Lee, “New Poll Reveals Most Americans Don’t Find Pastors, Religious Leaders Trustworthy,” The Christian Post, December 18, 2013.
- Barbara Bradley Hagerty, “The Most Influential Evangelist You’ve Never Heard Of,” National Public Radio, August 8, 2012.
- Justin Humphreys, “In God we trust?,” The Hook, March 10, 2011.