The American Values Coalition announces the formation of the J29 Coalition, a resourcing community for evangelical pastors. The first offering of the J29 Coalition is a six-month cohort called the J29 Cohort. This cohort will give pastors the resources and community they need to help recapture the evangelical political imagination and sustain their congregations through this tumultuous election year and beyond. Learn more at americanvalues.org and j29coalition.com.

Does the sleeper hit film of the Summer, "Sound of Freedom," promote QAnon-related conspiracies?

The Covid vaccine was developed under former President Donald Trump's leadership. He promoted and took the vaccine himself. Yet, many of Trump's supporters oppose the vaccine. Why? This question has been one of the great mysteries of Covid misinformation.

It's not an exaggeration to say the trial and verdict will be one of the most significant events in U.S. history, yet for many Americans, the news barely registered. The significance of the indictment is especially heightened when you consider this: the person charged with a coup attempt might be our next president.

"Buy Gold!" Frequent consumers of right-wing news are inundated ads containing this message, and those who fall for the scam lose much of their retirement savings as a result.

A Republican attorney general opposed some members of his own party while defending religious freedom in his state.

Two recent news stories demonstrated that liberal and conservative media each have their own set of blinders when it comes to issues concerning race.

Our nation was born out of a disgust of the centuries of religious warfare and intolerance wrought by state-sponsored religion. Our founders intentionally designed a government that would embrace toleration and pluralism and wouldn’t show favoritism toward any particular religious group. Our religious freedom rests upon these beliefs today.

Pastors have experienced a significant decline in their emotional, mental and spiritual health, according to new polling.

We often think of QAnon as problematic for Republicans, given the prominence of former President Donald Trump in many of its conspiracies, but Democrats now have their own QAnon candidate to deal with.

Former President Donald Trump borrowed language from pop-apocalyptic Christianity to describe his Tuesday arraignment in Miami.

Why is it that "a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on"? (A quote that is, ironically, often misattributed to Mark Twain or Winston Churchill.)

Twitter policies are undermining efforts to detect and counter disinformation.

Political party leaders will jump at opportunities to denounce immoral behavior from the other party, but morality often takes a back seat when the topic is their own party.

For some, it may sound a bit crazy to be talking about a Nazi threat in 2023, but this isn't an imaginary problem. I hope all this Nazi news serves as a wake-up call. For those of us who are a conservative or evangelical American, or have friends, family, or neighbors in those communities, it's especially important to defend against and denounce the Nazis among us.

Most Americans believe the media divides us, according to a new poll. One way to resist divisiveness is to understand the tactics used to divide us.

One theme we've highlighted on this blog is all the ways misinformation hurts real people. This is why it's so important that we all do our part to first of all, not contribute to the problem and be careful about the information we share.

We all feel the influence of social media around us, even if we're not users ourselves. But trying to grasp what that is, where it's a benefit, and where it's a danger, can feel like trying to pick up jello. We know something has changed and continues to change but it's hard to grasp what that is.

Misinformation is also harmful to our health. CNBC reports that average life expectancy in the US has seen a significant drop since 2019, from 78.8 years to 76.1 years. Countries with a similar GDP per capita didn't see the same drop.