Evangelical

The North Carolina General Assembly approved legislation in 2015 asking a congressional committee to eventually approve a likeness of Graham for display. Graham died in 2018 at age 99. Each state gets two statues.

And propelled him into the Republican nomination for President for a third time. But not all Christians in the U.S. have such a positive view of the former President. Most Black Protestants have an unfavorable view of Trump (80%). And similar majorities in other religious groups, including atheists, agnostics, and Jews, also view him unfavorably.

NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon gets personal, and reports on the motivations giving rise to the ‘Exvangelical’ flight from the white Church.

Anita grew up in the 1990s, the era of Purity Culture. Unlike Britney (Spears) and Jessica (Simpson), she had no purity ring, but she's seen how abstinence messaging shaped her generation's relationship with sex, religion, pleasure and their bodies. She talks to two folks who've been unraveling their own indoctrination, and meets someone who's on an mission to help parents recover from purity culture and raise a more sex-positive generation.

From the time she was young, musician and writer Cameron Dezen Hammon craved a spiritual connection with the world around her. As a kid, she tagged along…

From the time she was young, musician and writer Cameron Dezen Hammon craved a spiritual connection with the world around her. As a kid, she tagged along…

Is it easier to turn the other cheek while packing heat? Like the Vedas, Torah and Quran, the New Testament’s verdict on violence and self-defense is a…

Is it easier to turn the other cheek while packing heat? Like the Vedas, Torah and Quran, the New Testament’s verdict on violence and self-defense is a…

Evangelist Billy Graham died this morning at his home in Montreat, North Carolina at 99 years old. Graham was known to many as “America’s Pastor,” and it…

Evangelist Billy Graham died this morning at his home in Montreat, North Carolina at 99 years old. Graham was known to many as “America’s Pastor,” and it…