During his campaign to return to the White House, President Donald Trump promised to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and to shut down diversity programs in the federal government and higher education.
How The Son Of Jewish Immigrants Became The King Of American Comedy
“The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “All in the Family,” the riffs and routines of Johnny Carson and Larry David. His writers included Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon and Woody Allen.
No Amazon for Advent
For many businesses, it’s almost the most wonderful time of year — the Christmas shopping season. Last year, American shoppers spent nearly $1 trillion in November and December. Even with economic troubles this year, that number is expected to increase.
Pope Leo XIV calls for urgent climate action and says God’s creation is ‘crying out’
Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God’s creation…
Bible sales keep growing, even as many Americans lose their religion
Many Americans may have lost faith in organized religion, but according to recent data, they still love the Good Book.
He was Zohran Mamdani’s Jewish wingman. What’s next for Brad Lander?
When Brad Lander and Zohran Mamdani were jointly honored at a left-wing Jewish event in September, the two politicians’ alliance was at the center of the evening.
With Hollywood A-listers at the Vatican, Pope Leo extols human value of movies
Before some of the biggest names on the silver screen, Pope Leo XIV, a noted film aficionado, praised the prophetic power of cinema and lamented what he called the “troubling decline” of movie theaters in cities and neighborhoods worldwide.
Evangelicals Confront a Revolutionary Age
The 1960s brought tumultuous cultural change in America. For evangelicals, the decade began with concerns about what would happen if the American people elected a Roman Catholic president.
A year into retirement, Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry prays for Trump, mulls what’s next
Retired Episcopal Presiding Bishop Michael Curry prays for President Donald Trump even when it’s hard to take that step, he said at a Texas Tribune Festival session on Thursday (Nov. 13), in conversation with New York Times national reporter Ruth…
In God We Trusted: America Says Goodbye To The Penny
The United States Mint pressed its final penny — ending more than two centuries of production for the humble one cent coin that also bore one of the country’s most enduring spiritual mottos: “In God We Trust.”
Muslim artist detained by ICE is being ‘punished’ for his social media posts, his lawyers say
Attorneys for Ya’akub Ira Vijandre, a Filipino artist being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Georgia, are challenging his detention in court, arguing he is being “punished for his faith, his speech and his political beliefs.”
Nicolas Cage’s ‘The Carpenter’s Son’ turns an apocryphal text about Jesus’ youth into a horror film
In the second century, as the canonical Gospels were being copied and circulated throughout the Roman Empire, another text about the life of Jesus was simultaneously spreading. Although the Infancy Gospel of Thomas didn’t make it into the New Testament, it remained…