On Thursday, a U.S. District Court dismissed a request by parents whose children attend public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, to let their kids opt out of classes where books on LGBTQ+ issues are read and discussed.
You’re invited to four change-making conversations upcoming through BNG
Beginning this Wednesday, BNG Executive Director Mark Wingfield launches a fall series of “change-making conversation” webinars that are free to attend. Confirmed guests are Mikeal Parsons and Joao Chaves, authors of the new book Remembering Antônia Teixeira; David Gushee, BNG…
White Evangelicals Aren’t Sure About Ramaswamy. But for Indian American Christians, He’s a No-Go.
At 38 years old, Vivek Ramaswamy stands out among his fellow Republican presidential candidates for his age alone. The self-made billionaire has further set himself apart by saying he would ban social media for children, proposing to raise the voting age to…
NGO Providing Relief To Nigeria’s Persecuted Christians
It was 10 a.m. on May 16 of this year. Eunice Simon was home with her four children when she heard people shouting. Confused, Simon came out and saw dozens of Fulani herders afar who had invaded Jwak, her village…
Calvinist activist warns that white nationalism is invading Reformed churches
Owen Strachan, a Southern Baptist seminary professor turned anti-woke activist, has spent years warning that liberals were undermining America’s evangelical Christian churches.
Nicaraguan government bans Jesuit order and says all its property will be confiscated
Nicaragua’s government on Wednesday declared the Jesuit religious order illegal and ordered the confiscation of all its property.
Don’t Waste Your Life: How One Family Stopped Being Trashy Christians
Zach and Sadie McElrath’s six-year-old daughter saw something at a store that caught her eye: a slingshot. But they didn’t buy it for her because it would have ultimately produced landfill waste. Instead, their daughter is figuring out how to…
Political Christianity Has Claws
On Friday, Aug. 18, a man named Travis Ikeguchi shot and killed Laura Ann Carleton in Cedar Glen, Calif. On Monday, the San Bernardino County sheriff Shannon Dicus said, “Investigators determined that prior to the shooting the suspect tore down a…
Artificial intelligence program poised to shake up Catholic education, doctrine
A new Catholic program using artificial intelligence, Magisterium AI, is promising to revolutionize academic research in Catholic education and holds the potential to disrupt long-held doctrines and beliefs.
Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy spar over aid to Israel at first GOP debate
In a night of standoffs between Republican presidential candidates on the debate stage, one of the fiercest occurred over Israel.
Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools
A coalition advocating for Native American people impacted by an oppressive system of boarding schools for Native youths plans to digitize 20,000 archival pages related to schools in that system that were operated by the Quakers.
In session reacting to school shooting, Tennessee GOP lawmaker orders removal of public from hearing
Families close to a Nashville fatal school shooting broke down in tears Tuesday after a Tennessee Republican leader ordered state troopers to remove them and others from a legislative hearing room while they waited to testify in favor of gun…