Angela Denker is a Lutheran pastor and veteran journalist. She’s written for many publications, including Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, and Sojourners. She is the author of “Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump” (Fortress Press).
Contributions
- November 20, 2014: What Families Want: From A Millennial Mom & Pastor
- September 7, 2017: The Power and the Threat of Kneeling: Colin Kaepernick
- September 1, 2017: How The Nashville Statement Erases Jesus
- August 7, 2017: The Blessedness of Reclaiming Time
- July 31, 2017: A Good Christian Woman…Not That One
- November 11, 2016: A Gut Check for the Left: Finding the Politics of Jesus in America
- May 27, 2016: Zika, Love, Motherhood and Injustice: A Letter to Kalissandra de Olivera
- August 15, 2014: Ebola, Inequality, and the One Who Brings Us Hope
- August 28, 2014: Ferguson: Reading From a Script
- September 13, 2014: Why I Won't Watch #RayRice
- October 3, 2014: These Royals Make You Believe In God
- October 25, 2014: Millennials: Don't Quit; Take a Break & Recommit
- November 8, 2014: 2014 Midterm Elections: What Does Jesus Say?
- September 15, 2017: The Truth About Debt
- December 8, 2014: Christmas 2014: Hope in the Shadow of Ferguson and Ray Rice
- December 22, 2014: In Celebration of the “Average” Church
- January 22, 2015: What Dance Moms Gets Wrong About God
- February 19, 2015: That Ashy Cross: Why Christians Are Marked By Death
- March 13, 2015: I Am A Teenage Female Suicide Bomber
- April 17, 2015: 9 Questions raised by Hozier’s hit song “Take Me to Church”
- April 24, 2015: Soccer In Kinshasha & Why We’re So Unhappy
- May 1, 2015: The Danger of Not Being Ashamed: A White Mother’s Lament for Freddie Gray
- May 29, 2015: God Will Provide: Hope After Christendom
- August 1, 2015: Pruning Withered Petals and Facing Death in July 2015
- August 17, 2015: Mommy, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger
- January 29, 2016: Our Better Angels: An Appeal to American Christians in a Time of Trump
- August 4, 2018: Don’t You Dare Tell Me I’m Not Evangelical
- May 31, 2020: #SundaySermon: This Is the Way the World Ends
- January 14, 2020: Finding Freedom & Salvation in a Weary World
- October 5, 2019: God Is Not Dead!
- September 14, 2019: ‘The Neck That Turns the Head’
- August 9, 2019: The Grace of Red State Christians
- June 6, 2019: The America Where I Want to Live
- May 20, 2019: A Prophet in Our Midst
- April 25, 2019: Clay Jars: A Letter to My Sisters in Ministry
- April 17, 2019: Unholy Week
- December 17, 2018: What Keeps Us Safe?
- September 14, 2018: Death in September
- August 23, 2018: Why in the World Would Anyone Get Ordained Today?
- March 26, 2021: How Much Hate Does It Take to Make a Hate Crime?
- July 5, 2018: The Lie of American Freedom: A Theology of Glory
- May 28, 2018: America and the Loss of Collective Memory
- May 6, 2018: End the Billy Graham Rule
- April 19, 2018: Bill Hybels: Why Sexual Harassment is Not a ‘Distraction’
- April 12, 2018: A Glimpse of Heaven
- March 31, 2018: What If We Heard Each Other This Easter?
- March 15, 2018: #EnoughIsEnough: My 5-Year-Old is Afraid
- January 11, 2018: Highpoint Church: How You Know Jesus Has Left Your Church
- December 14, 2017: The Bible Roy Moore Forgot: Psalm 40 for Alabama
- October 30, 2017: Why I Bother Being Lutheran: Theology of the Cross
- October 23, 2017: As A Mother of Two Sons, My Take on #MeToo
- October 6, 2017: Silent No More: How Women & People of Color are Changing U.S. Sports and Christianity