How can Christian leaders faithfully navigate politics?

Christian leaders may wonder how they can be true to their faith convictions in a polarized political atmosphere. New resources, along with essays and interviews from the Faith & Leadership archives, can help.

The 2020 election
Politics and religious faith
Leading in the public square
Conflict and polarization
The 2016 presidential election

Why did Biden underperform among Latinx voters?

Mark T. Mulder Gerardo Martí

Kelly Brown Douglas: After the election, faith leaders must fill the vacuum of moral leadership

Ian Carr McPherson: Seeking the common good in an uncommon time

By Ian Carr McPherson Associate Pastor, United Church of Chapel Hill

In a season of reckonings, forgiveness is not forgetting

By Anthea Butler Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana studies, Universty of Pennsylvania

Kristin Kobes Du Mez: Toxic masculinity in evangelical culture is crucial to Trump's success

David P. Gushee: The problem with white evangelicalism is not Jesus

John Fea: Evangelicals may vote the same in 2020 as in 2016, but we understand them much better now

By John Fea Professor of history, Messiah University

Errin Haines: Called to be a voice of clarity

By Ellen Ann Fentress Writer

Protecting the freedom to practice all faiths without fear

By Melissa Rogers Visiting professor, Wake Forest University School of Divinity

Prince Rivers: Getting Souls to the Polls this election season

Exorcism at the polls

By Patrick B. Reyes Senior director of learning design, Forum for Theological Exploration

Interfaith advocacy groups collaborate to help the nation's vulnerable

By Edie Gross Journalist

Leah Schade: How pastors can bridge political divides in 2020

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Voting for our own souls

By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Director, School for Conversion

Why don't all Latinx Americans vote 'blue'?

Mark T. Mulder Gerardo Martí

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Reclaiming public faith from the religious right

Laura Stern: Must we keep the church out of politics and politics out of the church?

By Laura Stern Pastor, Soapstone UMC

Michael Wear: Christians should be involved in party politics

Luke Bretherton: Politics is key to loving your neighbor

William J. Barber II: We have to dare to preach the gospel

Eric D. Barreto: Reading the Bible in public

By Eric D. Barreto Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary

Ben Irwin: Reject political idolatry this election season

By Ben Irwin Writer and editor

Edgar Moore: Election Day, in the shadow of the cross

By Edgar (Ed) Moore Retired United Methodist elder

John Inazu: Confident pluralism -- surviving and thriving through deep difference

Stephen R. Haynes: The battle for Bonhoeffer

William H. Lamar IV: Black preaching, after the election

By William H. Lamar IV Pastor, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church

Cameron Barr: The pastoral vocation in the age of President Trump

By Cameron Barr Senior Pastor, United Church of Chapel Hill

Ginger Gaines-Cirelli: Sacred resistance is about our being, not just our doing

Robert Wilson-Black: Resistance and healing, after the election

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