Pope Francis has met with a fourth group of transgender people who found shelter at a Rome church, the Vatican newspaper reported Thursday.
Politicians seek to control classroom discussions about slavery in the US
Of all the subjects taught in the nation’s public schools, few have generated as much controversy of late as the subjects of racism and slavery in the United States.
Despite vastly different values, evangelical ‘Hamilton’ connects secular left and Christian right
Last weekend, the Door Christian Fellowship Ministries in McAllen, Texas, mounted an unauthorized, unlicensed and “Christianized” production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton.
Both Open- and Close-mindedness Increase in U.S.
The number of U.S. adults who are open to new ideas and to changing their mind on issues has increased since 2015, according to a Barna Group report published on July 20.
Native Americans urge boycott of ‘tone deaf’ Pilgrim museum
Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring Colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English settlement founded by the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower.
Boston’s Jews are getting a ‘Jewish tavern’ to study religious text — and drink beer
A century ago, German philosopher Franz Rosenzweig spearheaded the revival of intellectual Jewish life in the city of Frankfurt am Main with the “Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus” — the Jewish House of Free Study.
ReAwaken Tour host says he feels harassed by NY prosecutor
A Christian pastor in western New York said he felt intimidated and harassed after the state’s attorney general, a Democrat, sent a letter saying she believed a planned far-right political event at his church this week could lead to racial…
Why the largest US Lutheran denomination apologized to a Latino congregation
When the Rev. Megan Rohrer was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Sierra Pacific Synod in May 2021, the election was celebrated as a revolution in and outside of the United States’ largest Lutheran denomination. Rohrer became…
The Supreme Court Wants to End the Separation of Church and State
Many legal scholars in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s radical decision to reverse Roe v. Wade have focused on the dangerous implications of the court’s centuries-old worldview on protections for things such as same-sex marriage and contraception.
Suspect in Dallas salon May shooting indicted for anti-Asian hate crime
A man accused of shooting three Asian American women at a Dallas hair salon was indicted Tuesday on multiple counts, including committing a hate crime and aggravated assault.
Anglican Division over Scripture and Sexuality Heads South
At least 125 Anglican bishops gathered at the Lambeth conference in Canterbury, England, endorsed a decades-old resolution against “homosexual practice” along with a new provision that “renewed steps be taken to ensure all provinces abide by this doctrine in their…
Amy Spitalnick, who took on neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, is moving to Bend the Arc
For nearly four years, Amy Spitalnick led the effort to hold organizers of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, legally liable for the violence of that day. Her effort paid off last year, when a jury…