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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...
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...
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...
Two principal claims appear across the materials: that , and that specific Protestant denominations (Presbyterian and Episcopalian) have been historically overrepresented in executive ranks. Contempor...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mainstream evangelical leaders have responded to dominionist and reconstructionist ideas with a mix of rejection, selective appropriation, and uneasy accommodation: many prominent evangelicals and ins...
The precise number of Christians imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag solely "for practicing their faith" cannot be fixed from available sources; contemporary estimates of Christians imprisoned for conscien...
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...
Several self‑styled evangelical “watchdogs” and discernment ministries — including Justin Peters’ ministry, Michelle Lesley’s site, SO4J and compilations like GodWords — have publicly labeled prominen...
Yes — a consequential but uneven pattern of backlash and career consequences has emerged for evangelical pastors who publicly opposed Donald Trump: some faced personal attacks and loss of influence, a...