Mitchell Lands couldn’t make the trip south from Canada, where he lives on the traditional lands of the Migisi Sahgaigan, or Eagle Lake First Nation, in the province of Ontario. But Lands’ voice echoed in early October outside the concrete and…
Some churches got mega PPP loans. A few got tiny ones.
When the Rev. Janet Gullickson heard that churches would be eligible for Paycheck Protection Program loans at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, she sprang into action.
Supreme Court to hear arguments on FBI’s surveillance of mosques
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a case involving an FBI undercover operation at a mosque in California. Area Muslims are suing the FBI over a nearly year-long surveillance program that, at least publicly, yielded no results and…
Tuition costs cut by more than one-third at Truett Seminary
Tuition costs at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary will be 36 percent less expensive in the 2022-23 academic year.
As Students Rally for Victims, Liberty Board Approves Title IX Review
Liberty University students and alumni prayed and protested in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault as they called on the school’s board of trustees to authorize an independent investigation into its response to reports of abuse.
BNG’s November webinar will feature John Pavlovitz in dialogue with Mark Wingfield
John Pavlovitz will join BNG Executive Director Mark Wingfield for a lively conversation about faith, church, politics and culture Tuesday, Nov. 16, at noon Eastern time. The “Change-making Conversations” webinar is free and open to the public, but advance registration…
Radicalization’s path: In case studies, finding similarities
In the months before he was charged with storming the Capitol, Doug Jensen was sharing conspiracy theories he’d consumed online. But it hadn’t always been that way, says his brother, who recalls how he once posted the sort of family…
Nebraska AG finds 258 victims of Catholic church sex abuse
A Nebraska attorney general’s office investigation identified 258 victims who made credible allegations of sexual abuse against 57 Catholic church officials in the state going back decades, including many that high-ranking church leaders knew about and didn’t report to the…
Top US Catholic bishop calls social justice movements ‘pseudo-religion’
Archbishop José H. Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, railed against “new social justice movements” during a speech Thursday (Nov. 4), decrying them as “pseudo-religions” that ultimately serve as “dangerous substitutes for true religion.”