Hillary Clinton

Having spent a lot of time reading the sermons and diaries of intrepid Methodist women in the late 19th– and early-twentieth centuries, I couldn’t help but see Hillary Clinton as a torchbearer of this vibrant tradition of progressive faith and activism. Yet it puzzled me that so many people, on the left and right, saw her as “secular”–or even “pagan.” The more I began to dig into her story, the more I began to realize that to tell her story is to tell the story of Christianity in recent American history. This narrative is perhaps all the more important given her loss in the 2016 election.

Until this book comes out, you can read some of my research on Clinton’s faith in The Washington Post, Religion & Politics,  Perspectives, in All things, and at The Anxious Bench.