Religion
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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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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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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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Addiction, Recovery
A roundup of recent editing work for Guideposts–our year-long series of stories about addiction and recovery. Read about David Beddoe, a pastor who hid his addiction to pain pills until things fell apart; addiction counselor David Stoecker, whose recovery story is truly remarkable; and Fire Chief Jan Rader, who details the damage done by opioids 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
Jim Hinch 