A Texas state judge issued an injunction against anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life, blocking it from trying to enforce the new six-week abortion ban against Planned Parenthood in Texas.
Blocked from serving their church, Catholic women push for female deacons
Casey Stanton wanted to offer encouragement, love and healing to the inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, where she served as a chaplain intern a few years ago.
Hayes named BNG Clemons Fellow
Amy Hayes of Atlanta has been named Baptist New Global’s third Clemons Fellow, continuing the launch of a graduate-level fellowship begun in June. Hayes is a master of divinity student at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology, where she also…
The gospel of Sherri Tenpenny: COVID-19 misinformation meets Christian nationalism
Testifying to Ohio state legislators in June, an osteopathic doctor from Cleveland suggested that COVID-19 vaccines could “magnetize” people’s bodies, or, alternatively, allow them to “interface” with cellphone towers.
Post-Trump, Christian nationalists preach a theology of vaccine resistance
About midway through his address to a crowd in St. Louis in late August, Greg Locke shifted gears. The goateed pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, had been regaling the audience — “patriots,” he called them…
Polish nun, cardinal who defied communism are beatified
Poland’s top political leaders on Sunday attended the beatification of two revered figures of the Catholic church — a cardinal who led the Polish church’s resistance to communism and a blind nun who devoted her life to helping others who…
For New York celebrity priest, 9/11 closure will come with tolerance for ‘every path to God’
On a weekday in Massapequa Park, New York, deep in the Long Island suburbs, Monsignor Jim Lisante sits on a faded but dignified patterned brocade sofa in a plush parlor at the rectory of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church,…
Militia leader gets 53 years in Minnesota mosque bombing
The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque was sentenced Monday to 53 years in prison for an attack that terrified the mosque’s community.
Bishop John Shelby Spong, firebrand who championed LGBTQ inclusion, has died
Bishop John Shelby Spong, a bestselling author and cleric known for his progressive theology and his support of LGBTQ clergy in the Episcopal Church, has died.