Evangelical
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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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Pandemic Radicals, Or Not
Some gleanings from a year of editing and writing stories about the pandemic. First, how the pandemic radicalized evangelicals, in the Los Angeles Review of Books. A more encouraging and counterintuitive take in Zocalo: Churches that chose a more moderate approach ended up thriving. Finally, in Bloomberg Opinion, a search for common ground at a Continue reading
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Love Wins
Recent work in Guideposts shows the magazine’s diversity of voices and offers a more nuanced and realistic view of religion in America than featured in many media outlets. Oklahoma City writer Christy Johnson writes about rethinking her evangelical Christian views of sexuality after her daughter comes out as gay. I conclude Guideposts’ two-year series on 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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Christians’ Demographic Cliff
In today’s Orange County Register: As sanctuaries fill up for the holidays, forward-thinking church leaders are finding little to celebrate in a growing body of research that shows American Christianity at risk of losing an entire generation of young people, perhaps for good. A record one-third of Americans under age 30 are now religiously Continue reading
Jim Hinch 