EVANGELICALS LOVE TRUMP! This media narrative refuses to die. For conservative outlets, it’s followed by handwringing and calls for fire and brimstone. For liberals, it’s followed by laughing and pointing at evangelicals and their moral hypocrisy. There’s only one problem with the narrative: it isn’t true. The “evangelicals love Trump”[…]
Because my blog is about quitting cynicism toward evangelicals, in my last post I defined evangelical. In this post, I’ll keep defining things: what makes a person a cynic? As a lawyer, the first thing I look for when researching a new legal topic are the terms of art. Certain[…]
My blog is about quitting cynicism toward evangelicals. But before I talk about that, we need definitions. What is an evangelical anyway? This is weirdly complicated, and has gotten me in trouble a lot. I’ll explain with a mostly-true story: I denied my faith in the Yale Law School courtyard.[…]