The foundation for liberal democracy, which makes the protection of individual rights the basis for political society, was thereby established. A century later, in Great Britain — where the conception of rights was tightly bound to biblical teachings — the defeat of the inter­national slave trade became a national priority. William Wilberforce, an

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The outcome has the potential to permanently split an already divided evangelical America. Like the Trump movement within the Republican Party, a populist groundswell within the already conservative evangelical denomination is trying to install an anti-establishment leader who could wrench the church even further to the right, while opponents conte

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As the financial power and social presence of the evangelical churches grew, so inevitably did their political influence. In the past many evangelicals had treated politics with a certain amount of disdain. Until well into the 1980s pastors at the Assemblies of God used to tell followers that “believers don’t mess with politics”, for example.25 But

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