Review & Giveaway: American Heretics
Jerome Copulsky’s “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” is a tour de force documenting the religious illiberalism that has challenged democratic values from the very beginning.
Review: The Violent Take It by Force
In “The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy,” Matthew Taylor shows how some of the more extreme beliefs of American evangelicalism have begun to take hold in the mainstream.
At Vice Presidential Debate Event, Religious Leaders Elevate Moral Stakes
Before Tim Walz and J.D. Vance took the debate stage on Tuesday, Faith for Harris-Walz held a vice presidential pre-show event featuring several influential religious leaders.
Conservative Christians Were Skeptical of Mail-In Ballots. Now They Are Gathering Them in Churches
Trump has long criticized this voting method as rife with fraud — an unfounded assertion.
Review & Giveaway: The Violent Take It By Force
Matthew Taylor makes a compelling case that the New Apostolic Reformation, whose leaders and ideas have migrated from the fringes to the center of American evangelicalism, is a dangerous threat to democracy.
The Fundamentalist Roots of Trump and Vance’s Nativist Attacks on Immigrants
Contributing writer Rodney Kennedy connects recent racist rhetoric aimed at immigrants to the early 20th-century Baptist pastor J. Frank Norris.
200 Christian Leaders Across Denominations Call Defending Democracy a ‘Test of Faith’
More than 200 Christian leaders have signed a document arguing that 'democracy stands embattled.'
When a Dictator Quotes the Bible
This issue of A Public Witness treks to Latin America to consider the dangers arising from the political co-opting of sacred texts.
Voter Protection Training Begins As Clergy, Secular Groups Look Toward Election
Groups are aiming to equip volunteers to keep the environment calm at polling places, especially in battleground states.
The Blindness of Political Violence
This issue of A Public Witness addresses how two things can be true: Trump is a victim of political violence and he is a dangerous cheerleader for political violence today.