Americans worried about border security should look beyond the popular-but-false portrayal of migrants as invaders and seek ways to help those in troubled nations not need to become immigrants in the first place. That’s the message of two evangelical leaders…
Refugee agencies praise Biden’s increase in admissions cap but call for greater infrastructure to make the goal possible
Refugee agencies praised the Biden administration’s decision to hike the refugee resettlement cap to 125,000 from 62,500 beginning in October, but added the higher allowance will do little good without assistance in rapidly rebuilding capacity lost during the Trump presidency….
Virginia pastor shows that women can pray over NASCAR races too
Baptist minister Libby Grammer is slated to give the pre-race prayer Sept. 25 at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia, where she became the first woman ever to do so in early April. But Grammer’s motivation is less historical than it is…
Ecumenical dialogue could heal a world of problems, Baptist author says
A Christianity united through ecumenism could bring guidance and healing to the cultural, political and environmental challenges confronting the U.S. and other nations, Baptist author and scholar Steven Harmon believes. The professor of historical theology at Gardner-Webb University School of…
Dreamers left with disappointment once again as Senate parliamentarian dashes their hopes
Immigrants and their allies are calling for bold and creative Congressional action after a U.S. Senate official blocked a Democratic attempt to address immigration reform through a $3.5 trillion budget proposal. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough this week ruled that budget…
Politicians and pastors opposing vaccine mandates are hypocritical, Griffen says in webinar
Politicians and religious leaders opposed to President Biden’s new COVID-19 vaccine mandates are concerned not with protecting the personal freedoms of Americans but with expanding control through political and social discord, Arkansas judge and Baptist pastor Wendell Griffen said in…
From 2016 to 2020, Trump grew in support from white evangelicals
Anyone who assumed that a growing number of Americans would abandon a politicized evangelicalism over its support for Donald Trump appears to have been wrong, new research shows. On the contrary, a new analysis reveals no significant abandonment of evangelicalism…
‘Marker events’ leave scars whether visible or not, psychologist explains
Marker events — especially the scary ones like the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 9-11 and Hurricane Ida — always leave some form of an emotional scar, even in those who weren’t physically present for the trauma, according to clinical…
‘What we must do, as young people, is to ensure we don’t carry forward the endemic fallacies’
The leadership of young people is crucial in helping the world recover from the economic, health and political devastation exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to panelists with the Next Generation Task Force of the Parliament of the World’s Religions….