Not long after Diane Langberg began working as a clinical psychologist in the 1970s, a client told her that she had been a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Not sure of what to do, Langberg…
New House Homeland Security Committee Chair Has History Of Anti-Muslim Comments
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) is set to lead the House Committee on Homeland Security, which Muslim civil rights groups say is alarming because he has a history of making Islamophobic remarks.
Why Israel’s Orthodox Jewish parties want to narrow the country’s ‘Law of Return’
The embattled U.S. Rep George Santos of New York claims that he’s not Jewish, but only “Jew-ish.” That distinction might seem to disqualify him from automatic Israeli citizenship under the country’s “Law of Return,” which offers immediate citizenship to all Jews. But…
GOP May Kick Rep. Ilhan Omar Off Committees After Years Of Islamophobic Attacks
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has vowed to bar Democrats Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar from serving on House committees.
Detroit-area city OKs animal sacrifice for religious reasons
Residents of a Detroit-area community with a large Muslim population can sacrifice animals at home for religious reasons.
Fellowship Southwest adds immigration legal aid component
A ministry that provides low-cost legal services to immigrants has found a new home with Fellowship Southwest. Immigration Service and Aid Center, known as ISAAC, has been housed in the Baptist General Convention of Texas Christian Life Commission since 2010….
Young evangelicals listen to their pastors. Do pastors listen to them?
“When students come back at semester breaks, that’s when the conversations really pick up,” said Jon-Michael Phillips, 35, a youth pastor at a nondenominational church in Jackson, Michigan, a city of about 31,000 between Ann Arbor and Lansing, the state’s…
Left-wing Israelis take to the streets as new government presses right-wing agenda further
As Israel’s new right-wing government continued to signal that it would push through measures to cripple the judiciary and clamp down on public dissent and news operations, thousands of citizens took to the streets in protest and one prominent opposition…
God and guns often go together in US history – this course examines why
As a religion professor, I’ve come to know many students from other countries who identify as Christian. I realized they were puzzled at some of the things Americans often bundled into their faith – things these international Christians didn’t consider relevant…
C of E setting up £100m fund to ‘address past wrongs’ of slave trade links
The Church of England has committed £100m to a fund it is setting up to compensate for its historical benefit from the international slave trade.
Passport gets $1 million Lilly grant
Passport, a national student ministry, has received a $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to support The Growing Faith Initiative. The grant will expand and enhance Passport’s daily devotional site, d365.org, and allow Passport to more readily connect…
Bad Preachers’ Wives
On a hot pandemic day in 2020, Jerry Falwell Jr., president of the fundamentalist Christian Liberty University, was caught with his pants down. To be fair, Falwell voluntarily posed for the compromising photograph, which he then posted to his 25,000 Instagram followers.