Wednesday was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day for LGBT Americans and those who believe we deserve basic respect and civil rights. After the president’s hastily tweeted ban on transgender Americans serving openly in the military, the Justice Department’s unusual interjection in a federal employment lawsuit…
This is why disabled people were so devastated by the Christian silence on health care
As justice conversations are gaining steam, we talk a lot about race, immigration, religious liberty, misogyny and even LGBT discrimination. But disability? We don’t usually consider that a justice issue. We the disabled are even marginalized by those who consider…
Two pastors in Myanmar may face eight years in prison
Two Baptist pastors in Myanmar who have been imprisoned since Christmas Eve face up to eight years in prison for helping a journalist who photographed evidence of the Myanmar military’s bombing of a Catholic church.
5 faith facts about Sam Brownback, nominee for international religious freedom ambassador
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Methodist-turned-Catholic politician, describes religious freedom as “the choice of what you do with your own soul.”
Most white evangelicals don’t believe Muslims belong in U.S.
Two-thirds believe Islam is not part of mainstream U.S. society and contend it encourages violence more than other faiths, while 72 percent see a natural conflict between Islam and democracy, according to Pew.
Trump’s evangelical advisors reportedly discussed transgender ban at White House meeting
Evangelical Christian leaders who informally advise the president discussed reversing the year-old policy two weeks ago at the White House, according to David Brody of Christian Broadcasting Network News.
Trump transgender ban a nod to Christian conservatives
His agenda stalled and his party divided, President Donald Trump veered into the nation’s simmering culture wars by announcing plans to ban transgender people from serving in the military.
Meet six black women shattering the theological glass ceiling
They are individuals who, for the most part, are already trailblazers in a field where historically black women are rarely considered authorities on topics from preaching, to pastoral care, to systematic theology, to biblical hermeneutics.
‘They kept us as slaves’: AP reveals claims against N.C.-based church
An investigation has found that Word of Faith Fellowship used its two church branches in Latin America’s largest nation to siphon a steady flow of young laborers to its 35-acre compound in rural North Carolina.