Christianity
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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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Common Ground
Guideposts’ new series, Our Common Ground, is about people working to bridge racial, economic, cultural and political divides. Stories published so far: A multiracial church in the Deep South has hard conversations about Black Lives Matter (February issue). Two sorority sisters in New Jersey, one Christian, one Muslim, find an unexpected bond in faith. Stories Continue reading
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Evangelicals Are Losing the Battle for the Bible. And They’re Just Fine With That
My latest in The Los Angeles Review of Books, an in-depth look at evangelicals’ evolving views about their foundational text, the Bible. Yet another signal that American evangelicalism is fracturing along generational and ethnic lines. 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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The Nones Have It?
A few recent stories about changing faith in America. Decline of the Revival, in The Los Angeles Review of Books, examines evangelicals’ efforts to understand their sudden loss of cultural and moral influence. What Happened to Religion in America? The I’s Have It, in OnFaith, posits American Christianity’s embrace of individualism as one explanation for 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 