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Don’t Just Change Refugee Policy—Change the People in the Pews
Melissa argues that Christians outraged by the current family separation crisis need to transform government policies—but...
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Porn and the American Presidency
In 1976, many evangelical supporters of Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter were disillusioned when the presidential...
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Trump, Evangelicals, and the Democratic Party
White evangelicals have become such an entrenched bloc in the Republican Party that four out...
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How Evangelicals Turned from a Born-Again Christian to a Divorced Hollywood Actor
Many evangelicals became deeply disillusioned with Carter's presidency. The sharp decline in ticket-splitting from 1976...
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The Limits of Evangelical Identity Politics
Jimmy Carter’s born-again credentials drew many evangelicals to the polls in 1976. Evangelicals who had...
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April 27, 2016
J.C. Can Save America
Ted Cruz marshals a rhetoric of Christian America in his campaign for president. Christians should...
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The Thee Decade: The 1970s Was More Than Bad Hair
The decade of the Seventies has a rather dismal reputation. In his creatively titled book...
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May 27, 2015
Five Reasons Carter Wasn’t So Bad
Carter has been maligned for being a weak, ineffective, micromanaging president. Randall Balmer begs to...
May 13, 2015
Doing Bad to Do Good: Carter’s Race-Baiting Election of 1970
In 1970 Jimmy Carter ran a sordid campaign for governor of Georgia. Courting the support...
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April 01, 2015
Beyond Playboy: The Inner Life of Jimmy Carter
In 1976 Playboy magazine conducted its infamous interview of Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. The...
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March 11, 2015
Lone Star Religion
Review of Robert Wuthnow, Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State (Princeton University...
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August 11, 2014
ENDING THE DRAFT
For obvious reasons, historians concern themselves with writing about things that happened, rather than others...
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July 03, 2014
Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, Part 2
Beginning in the 1970s, evangelical voters significantly influenced electoral outcomes. Throughout the 1980s, they emerged...
July 02, 2014
Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, Part 1
When Marge Simpson forgets to pay for a bottle of rum at the Qwik-E-Mart, she...
July 16, 2013
The Long History of the Religious Right
Ever since so many of them embraced the Reagan Revolution during the 1980 election cycle,...
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October 23, 2012
Should a Candidate’s Faith Matter to Paleo Evangelicals?
In last week's column, "Paleo Evangelicals as Reluctant Republicans," I argued that there are many...
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June 19, 2012
Evangelicals and Romney: Politics Trumps Theology?
Evangelicals are overwhelmingly indicating support for Mitt Romney in public opinion polls, and writers such...
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