California
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Megachurches Have a New Focus: Local Politics
Conservative Christians alarmed by what they describe as anti-religious trends in schools and communities are becoming increasingly assertive in their efforts to gain local political power. My latest in Capital and Main. Continue reading
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The Wildfire Dilemma
Much of what you know about wildfires is wrong, according to forest scientists. I explain why — and why it matters — in Bloomberg. Continue reading
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The African Future of American Christianity
My latest in Boom: A Journal of California, a story about an Orange County mega-church revived by missionaries…from Africa. As America secularizes and grows more ethnically diverse, forward-thinking evangelicals are looking to rapidly growing churches in Africa, Asia and Latin America to help them survive. Continue reading
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Crystal Ball
My cover story for the latest issue of The American Scholar shows how the death and rebirth of Orange County’s Crystal Cathedral (which went bankrupt and now is being transformed by the county’s surging Catholic diocese into a regional worship and cultural center) signals a wider transformation in the fast-changing landscape of American spirituality. Continue reading
Jim Hinch 