Is the power and publicity of the Christian Right in the US behind the rise of the "nones"? Meanwhile, centrist and non-political evangelicals are forced out by the right-wing ideologues.
Peter Wehner writes in The Atlantic about the conflict within evangelical churches over politics and culture-wars. Lots of input from Kristin Kobes DuMez.
Right-to-lifers understood the arguments and goals of the women’s movement and were willing to engage with feminists to a certain extent . . . Unfortunately, a growing conservative contingent in the antiabortion movement viewed the women’s movement as an existential threat to their larger goals and actively sabotaged and undermined attempts by right-to-lifers to work with feminist groups.
The last weeks of the Trump administration were hard on the reputation of Abraham Kuyper. Jim Bratt, Kuyper's biographer, considers how Kuyper is being appropriated and concludes that in the Reformed tradition, Abraham Kuyper is too valuable to surrender.