A judge has ruled that a church in Massachusetts can operate an emergency homeless shelter on its property despite objections from some neighbors.
The Settler Colonial Roots of American Religion
Tisa Wenger teaches American religious history at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of three books, including We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and Religious Freedom: The Contested…
Pentagon-Vatican meeting latest flash point in Trump’s clash with religious leaders
On Wednesday (April 8), Vice President JD Vance stood in front of Air Force Two in Budapest and was confronted with the latest chapter in an emerging, global drama: rising tensions between the U.S. military and religious leaders.
Politically Neutral, Religiously Intense: What the Data Reveals About Jehovah’s Witnesses
This is why I love the Substack community – a couple of weeks ago, one of my subscribers (Ben Hein) asked me if I had any good data on Jehovah’s Witnesses. And you know what? I actually do. For reasons…
Augustine: The Man Who Forever Rewired Christianity
Augustine of Hippo is one of history’s great minds, which makes it all the more remarkable that he spent so many years being devious, promiscuous and extremely busy explaining why he wasn’t quite ready to change. He eventually ran out…
Baptist Pastor Urges Department of Labor to Seek a ‘Living Jesus’ Not a ‘Dead Jesus’ During Monthly Worship Service
Three days after Christians around the world gathered in churches for Easter Sunday, a Southern Baptist pastor turned a government auditorium in Washington, D.C., into an Easter worship space for employees of the U.S. Department of Labor during their workday….
New Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit Is the Real Deal
Most of the people who come to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, to see the Dead Sea Scrolls can’t read the fragments that are on exhibit through September. The scrolls are written in Hebrew, or perhaps ancient…
Black church leaders revive civil rights playbook to mobilize voters for midterms
Ahead of the midterm elections this fall, Pastor Mike McBride, a longtime Black voter mobilization strategist, is spearheading an initiative for church and community leaders to sit down together for Sunday dinners to learn from each other.
National support group for interfaith Jewish families guts staff amid funding crisis
A national nonprofit that supports interfaith Jewish families has slashed its workforce after facing an unanticipated budget shortfall.
Philadelphia’s 40‑year history of protecting undocumented immigrants began with churches hiding refugees from El Salvador
In the midst of a civil war, married couple Ernesto and Linda Fuentes fled their home country of El Salvador and headed for Philadelphia, via Mexico, in November 1983.
Jewish protesters hold Passover Seder at Palantir’s NY HQ over ICE contract
Hundreds of protesters gathered at Union Square in Manhattan on Monday afternoon (April 6) for a Passover Seder to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies and corporations working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Pope Leo XIV calls Trump’s threat to end Iran ‘truly unacceptable’
Catholics across the ideological spectrum, including Pope Leo XIV, expressed alarm and condemned President Donald Trump’s threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” unless Iran strikes a deal with the United States by 8 p.m. Eastern on April 7.