Why Evangelical Christians have left the Right By Marcia Pally Religion & Ethics Friday 28 October 2011 For much of the last century, America’s evangelicals have been the whipping boy of progressives and intellectuals of all sorts. Ostensibly, they use […]
Category: Writings on Evangelicals
America’s ”New Evangelicals”: Emissaries for the Common Good
America’s ”New Evangelicals”: Emissaries for the Common Good By Marcia Pally Published in Die Welt, Oct. 19, 2010 In public discussion today, religion is a sorry sight, linked to fundamentalism, terrorism, and benighted threats to democracy. This is just what […]
Young Evangelicals in the Voting Booth
Young Evangelicals in the Voting Booth By Marcia Pally A look at how young evangelicals approach faith and politics today Busted Halo MAY 7, 2012 Politically speaking, what’s up with young evangelicals? Evangelicals are 26 percent of the U.S. population, a quarter […]
America’s Marketplace of Confessions: Evangelical Christianity’s Gift to Muslims
America’s Marketplace of Confessions: Evangelical Christianity’s Gift to Muslims By Marcia Pally In the thinking and reflection that I suppose inevitably comes with the tenth anniversary of the 2001 September 11th attacks, I found myself reviewing the research on the […]
Reduce Abortions–Realign US politics: New Evangelical ideas
Reduce Abortions–Realign US politics: New Evangelical ideas By Marcia Pally It’s political gospel that evangelicals are a solid Republican bloc because they vote only for candidates who oppose abortion. And on the whole, this is true–as they’ll likely again show […]
Evangelicals and the 2012 election: The kingdoms of faith and politics By Marcia Pally
Evangelicals and the 2012 election: The kingdoms of faith and politics By Marcia Pally We are now past the half-mark in the Republican primaries, and it seems that evangelicals are following tradition—or stereotype–as the religious voting-bloc outlier. Yet a look […]
Muslims, Evangelicals and the Countering of Prejudice
Muslims, Evangelicals and the countering of prejudice: A conversation with Prof. Marcia Pally and Prof. Mustapha Tlili, New York University By Chantal Bax, April 2012 Muslims and Evangelicals – one may not think that these two groups have much in […]