Dr. James Dobson’s Apologia for Ted Bundy: How Evangelical Christianity Became a Safe Space for Sexual Predators

To paraphrase Faulkner, America’s religious past is never dead; it isn’t even past. The recent resurgence of overt white supremacy and antisemitism has prompted renewed debate about the role of fundamentalist Christianity in U.S. politics.

Trump is unavoidably at the center of this debate.

But so, too, are the White evangelicals who, through an astonishing routine of theological gymnastics, rationalized voting for…