Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland and chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, gives his assessment of President Barack Obama’s first 100 days. He describes his disappointment with how Obama has handled what he … More →

April 29, 2009

One hundred days into the Obama presidency, Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, a member of the president’s faith advisory council, talks with Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton about the new access religious moderates and liberals have to the … More →

April 29, 2009

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discusses Richard Cizik’s resignation from the National Association of Evangelicals amid controversy about his recent statements on civil unions and says the incident shows a growing division among evangelicals over politics and … More →

December 12, 2008

For more than 20 years, evangelicals have been a key factor in American politics. But one big question this election season is whether younger evangelicals will be the strong conservative Republicans that older evangelicals have been. More →

October 31, 2008

Jonathan Merritt, national spokesperson for the Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative, says younger evangelicals are interested in a broader range of issues than their parents. More →

October 31, 2008

In an interview, Anna Greenberg, senior vice-president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, describes the results of her new survey for Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly and the United Nations Foundation which took a special look at the views of evangelicals ages 18-29. She analyzes how the findings could affect the American political scene. More →

October 31, 2008

Students at Calvin College, an evangelical liberal arts school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, talk about their social and political views. More →

October 31, 2008

All four candidates describe themselves as Christians, but they talk about their faith — and apply it to their politics — in very different ways. More →

October 10, 2008

BOB ABERNETHY: White evangelicals have been a key part of the Republicans winning coalition for the past 20 years. But RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY has released a new survey showing that younger evangelicals are less supportive of John McCain than … More →

October 3, 2008

Read excerpts from Kim Lawton’s August 17, 2008 interview with Pastor Rick Warren at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California: On the August 16 forum with Obama and McCain: Rick Warren I think it fulfilled the goal that I wanted … More →

August 22, 2008