“Oftentimes in the Christian conservative community we are not expressing love of our fellow-man,” says Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family. “We can come across as very harsh, too harsh.” More →

February 22, 2013

Some pastors say their job is not to endorse political candidates. It is to make sure that their church members vote and “that they understand what’s at stake,” says Pastor Jeffery Daniel. More →

September 21, 2012

“Rick Santorum is a very particular kind of Catholic…A lot of Catholics don’t see themselves in him, and a lot of people actually don’t even know that he’s Catholic. Most people assume he’s an evangelical,” says Religion News Service editor in chief Kevin Eckstrom.
know that he’s Catholic. Most people assume he’s an evangelical.” More →

March 9, 2012

Nearly 2,000 social conservatives gathered in Washington, D.C. September 18-20 for the annual Values Voter Summit. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was their clear favorite in a straw poll of potential Republican presidential candidates for 2012. (No Democrats were on … More →

September 22, 2009

Bob Abernethy looks back on the impact of religion on the 2008 campaign with R & E Managing Editor Kim Lawton, professor John Green of the University of Akron’s Ray C. Bliss Institute, and Eugene Sutton, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. More →

November 7, 2008

Adam Hamilton, senior pastor at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas and author of SEEING GRAY IN A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD: THOUGHTS ON RELIGION, MORALITY, AND POLITICS, suggests that people of faith have come through … More →

November 4, 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