The country’s leading religious news wire hired a new publisher in 2016. Then it all fell apart.

Cone’s theology contrasted sharply with traditional theological approaches in that he articulated God’s identification with U.S. blacks. In portraying Christ’s blackness, he upended the assumptions of a field dominated by white theologians and helped spawn other theories of liberation.

The relationship between the number of Catholics in a state and the intensity of the state’s anti-abortion policies is completely inverse.

In a move that might surprise some, the conservative evangelical Liberty University has chosen the liberal evangelical icon Jimmy Carter to give its commencement speech this year.

Democrats say the speaker was peeved with Patrick Conroy for praying about no “winners and losers” under the tax bill.

“The country’s awash in religious media but there’s nothing else like RNS,” says Laurie Goodstein, a national religion correspondent for The New York Times. “It’s the AP of religion news, it’s a daily report covering news about all religious faiths without promoting any religion in particular.”

The discussion was full of prayer, repentance and painful conversations about how the church has aligned itself so closely with Trump that the gospel, once synonymous with good news, has lost its meaning.

By allowing King and Kennedy to become empty historical figures who stood for nothing controversial, we do a disservice to the causes they fought for.

While many evangelical Christians dismiss climate change as major concern, some scripture-citing environmentalists within their churches are on a mission.