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Several high-profile megachurch pastors publicly backed Donald Trump in 2016 and again in 2020, often framing their support around cultural issues, judicial appointments and a perceived defense of Chr...
Donald Trump has publicly identified as a nondenominational Christian since a 2020 interview with Religion News Service, having been raised and confirmed Presbyterian earlier in life . Reporting and a...
Franklin Graham’s vocal pro‑Trump posture has produced a clear split in the evangelical world: some leaders and conservative networks have embraced or defended him as a necessary political ally, while...
Prominent evangelicals who opposed Donald Trump produced sharp public arguments but did not precipitate a mass exodus from pews; instead their dissent contributed to factionalization within conservati...
A mix of polling, analysis and reporting shows many evangelical Christians continue to back Donald Trump despite documented dishonesty; researchers and commentators point to consequences-first reasoni...
Two principal claims appear across the materials: that , and that specific Protestant denominations (Presbyterian and Episcopalian) have been historically overrepresented in executive ranks. Contempor...
The available reporting identifies a few high-profile megachurches that experienced steep drops in in‑person worship between 2019 and 2023, but public, comparable attendance data for most individual m...
Herbert W. Armstrong was widely criticized by many mainstream Christian commentators and organizations for doctrines that diverged sharply from orthodox Christianity—especially his non‑Trinitarian Chr...
Major Christian communions overwhelmingly critique the prosperity gospel as theologically flawed or heretical, but responses vary in tone and mechanism: historic churches (Catholic, Orthodox, mainline...
Donald Trump was raised and confirmed in the Presbyterian Church but publicly said in a 2020 interview that he no longer identifies as Presbyterian and instead considers himself a “nondenominational C...
Reporting shows that concrete, named examples of dramatic post‑2019 attendance drops among are limited in the provided sources, with the clearest documented case — a reported 57% decline that led to m...
Barack Obama has consistently identified himself as a Christian — often saying explicitly “I am a Christian” or “a Christian by choice” — and has described his faith as shaped in adulthood by the “pre...
Independent academic research since 2010 on religious dreams and is fragmentary but substantive: peer-reviewed and university-press work has examined mediated Christian conversion narratives and Irani...
’s December 2019 editorial calling for ’s removal crystallized a public rupture inside American ism by turning institutional moral critique into a lightning rod for intra-evangelical conflict . The pi...
Peer-reviewed archaeology has validated a number of high-profile finds tied to the Bible—most famously the Dead Sea Scrolls and inscriptions like the Tel Dan stele—while routine new site announcements...
The Bible contains multiple, clear passages and themes that affirm the universality of salvation and the equal worth of all people—teachings that directly contradict the Ku Klux Klan’s racial theology...
Sunni and Shia Muslims both define Allah as the one, singular, transcendent God — the same monotheistic Creator affirmed in the Quran and in Islam’s central creed — and they reject the Christian doctr...
Available 2025 reporting shows two competing forces shaping church attendance: an apparent rebound among younger adults (Gen Z and Millennials) coupled with continued declines among older cohorts and ...
The Quran calls Jews and Christians “People of the Book,” at times honoring their scriptures as “guidance and light” while elsewhere warning Muslims not to take them as protectors or allies in certain...
The accelerated a realignment in American evangelical attitudes toward by turning a regional military crisis into a dramatic story of Israeli vulnerability that authorities — with visible evangelical ...