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Falwell’s wife blasts Liberty’s critics

Donald Trump has turned the Republican primary into a WWE-style wrestling match, and when Liberty University’s president Jerry Falwell Jr’s endorsed the candidate, he unknowingly stepped into the ring...

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The Death of Moral Relativism

Four years before he was hoisted to Speaker of the House, a smooth-faced Representative Paul Ryan declared, “If you ask me what the biggest problem in America is, I’m not going to tell you debt,...

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Trump’s Bible Fail

In August 2015, Donald Trump said the Bible was his favorite book, but then he couldn’t name his favorite verse. Eight months later, the Republican front-runner can cite his favorite verse—but,...

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The meaninglessness of religious liberty

An overwhelming three-fourths of Americans identify as religious. Listening to some religious conservatives in the U.S., though, one might think believers were a persecuted minority on the verge of...

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3 reasons conservative Christians will lose transgender debates

When LGBT rights first became a national issue following the Stonewall Riot of 1969, conservative Christians responded with a disastrous campaign against gay and lesbian causes. Christian leaders cited...

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Wayne Grudem, Donald Trump, and admitting when you’re not an expert

Reading theologian Wayne Grudem’s article, “Why voting for Donald Trump is a morally good choice,” felt like watching a Jell-O throwing contest. For approximately 5,000 words, Grudem tosses handfuls of...

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Compare Wayne Grudem’s comments about Rudy Giuliani to his Trump endorsement

Wayne Grudem’s got some ‘splainin to do. The author of Systematic Theology provoked a strong reaction from many fellow Christians recently when he published a 5,000-word article that stated voting for...

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Theologian Miroslav Volf makes a surprising case for one candidate

As Christians watch 2016 burn, we must remember that fire both consumes and refines. That is, it forces us to return to what makes us who we are. For Christians, this means asking once again how faith...

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Evangelicals, Trump And The Politics Of Redemption

Jonathan Merritt, who writes On Faith & Culture for RNS, invited Peter Wehner — senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing op-ed writer at The New York Times — to write...

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Why Christians Can Stay Hopeful In This Time Of Political Darkness

(RNS) — Seventy percent of Americans are dissatisfied “with the way things are going in the United States at this time,” according to a Gallup poll. This presumably includes a large number of...

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