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…the news media have generally made the assumption that evangelical antipathy to abortion and same-sex marriage explains this paradox. But an analysis… finds that answer is too simple. Academic and writer Myriam Renaud, author of the analysis, looked at surveys of evangelical voters and found that…

David Horsey, L.A. Times

…while evangelical churches are good at silencing Democratic views… Myriam Renaud points to a large gap between how evangelical pastors and congregants framed the 2016 presidential election…

Lydia Bean, Washington Post

…as Myriam Renaud, a religious scholar… has written, “If progressives hope to recapture the White House, they will have to persuade most, or all, of the white evangelical Christians who switched from Obama to Trump to switch back to their next candidate.”

Mark I. Pinsky, The New Republic

some of my articles

Statue of a nun in a black habit holding a cross and roses, inside a glass case

Photo: Myriam Renaud

Hans Küng

Photo: UNED / Wikimedia

Protesters holding a Black Lives Matter banner facing a line of police officers

Photo: Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

A man in a dark suit and red tie with his eyes closed as another man rests a hand on his shoulder in prayer

Photo: Jae C. Hong / AP

Two men seated and talking in a bowling alley, with other people standing behind them

Photo: Demetrius Freeman

A man in a blue suit looking to the side, between two out-of-focus women in church attire

Photo: Sean Rayford

Young worshippers with eyes closed, one with hands pressed together in prayer, in a large crowded arena

Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty

ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera, June 25, 2019

“Will Young White Evangelicals Come Back to Church?”

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Yemen

Photo: Hani Mohammed / AP

The Conversation, December 14, 2018

“Who are Yemen’s Houthis?”

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A man in a gray jacket seated in front of bookshelves, signing a book

Photo: Grant Pollard / AP