Moral Majority
White evangelicalism enters DeSantis season
By Tyler Huckabee — November 10, 2022
(RNS) — The Christian right turns to Florida’s governor to accomplish what Donald Trump never could.
The American Renewal Project wants to mobilize pastors for the Republican Party
By Yonat Shimron — November 4, 2022
(RNS) — The goal is to bring Christianity back into the public square.
From the new Christian right to Christian nationalism, part 1
By Mark Silk — February 21, 2022
(RNS) — Up first, the 20th century.
As campaigns battle for religious voters, many people of faith feel forgotten
By Ryan Eller — September 14, 2020
(RNS) — The swing voters in this election may be religious Americans who are grieving over our two national crises and want a candidate they trust will restore hope and help them heal.
Jerry Falwell Jr.’s fall, Liberty University and the myth of the Moral Majority
By Anthea Butler — August 27, 2020
(RNS) — The evangelical movement has abandoned its claims of piety and morality — instead, becoming a voting bloc intent on holding on to political power.
Can a Catholic critique of ‘throwaway culture’ pull politics from the brink?
By Charles C. Camosy — May 15, 2019
(RNS) — The church’s Consistent Life Ethic, rightly understood, could challenge our impoverished and incoherent political imagination and let a new generation begin the hard work of laying out the foundational principles for what comes next.
How abortion unified Catholics and evangelicals to become a power on the right
By Steven Waldman — May 7, 2019
(RNS) — Abortion politics thawed relations between conservative Catholics and Protestants and indirectly strengthened religious freedom in the United States.
How abortion changed the culture wars on same-sex marriage and religious freedom
By Jana Riess — October 31, 2017
Conservative Christians have gone from emphasizing their "moral majority" status to making political claims about individual rights, says author Andrew Lewis -- and it all started with abortion.
Ed Dobson, retired pastor and onetime Moral Majority leader, dies at 65
By Adelle M. Banks — December 29, 2015
(RNS) He served as one of the lieutenants of the Moral Majority, helping Ronald Reagan defeat President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election. Later, Dobson gave up on evangelical political involvement.
America’s Christian conservatives ponder a ‘Babylonian exile’ (ANALYSIS)
By David Gibson — August 18, 2014
(RNS) Feeling increasingly alienated and even persecuted, some Christians are adopting a favorite image from Scripture -- that of the Babylonian captivity.
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