George Yancey

Jan 7, 2025 | thepublicdiscourse.com | George Yancey

In April 2023, the world turned on Bud Light. After the company hired Dylan Mulvaney—a transgender-identifying person—as the face of its advertising, political conservatives decided to launch a boycott of the beer. Normally this would mean very little, since most boycotts do not do serious damage to a company’s sales. However, by the height of this boycott, Bud Light’s sales had dropped by nearly 30 percent.Why was this boycott so effective?

Oct 23, 2024 | wng.org | George Yancey

At times, it seems like the media is obsessed with the fears conservative Christians supposedly possess. It has been argued that these fears have turned them into monsters, made them scared of women, motivated their voting, and led them to become intolerant.

Mar 19, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | George Yancey

The notion that white evangelicals as a group are more desirous of political power than other religious groups is simply a myth. So why all the attention to white evangelicals instead of other politically active religious and non-religious groups? The shock of Trump’s victory in 2016 sent much of the media and academia looking for a scapegoat to explain that electoral win. The high percentage of white evangelicals who supported Trump made them a natural candidate.

Mar 6, 2024 | wng.org | George Yancey

Once again, the topic of Christian nationalism is all the rage. It has become on the left what woke is on the right—a way to tar one’s ideological opponents. “Christian nationalism” can mean just about anything negative one wants it to mean. However, before I deconstruct this controversy let me be up front. I think it was a mistake, and not a small amount of hypocrisy, for Christians to support Donald Trump.

Oct 31, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Jared Kennedy |Brandon Levering |Jay Sklar |George Yancey

Bruce Wayne became Batman after his parents’ tragic deaths. Peter Parker gained his “Spidey-sense” from a radioactive spider bite. All superheroes have unique backstories that help us understand them. The same is true with Christian doctrines and denominations. One dramatic backstory is the tale of disagreement and division behind the major views of the Lord’s Table we find in Christian churches today.