The country was founded in 1776. It was also founded in 1965, on a bridge in Selma. It was founded in a one-room schoolhouse where a teacher taught children to read against the law. It is being founded this morning,…
Religious schools that get public funds must follow Maine’s antidiscrimination laws, court rules
A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that private religious schools receiving public funds cannot discriminate based on gender identity, sexual orientation or religion. But it said a provision about religious expression should be revisited.
Have Praise Teams Replaced Black Church Choirs?
Nathan Glasper Jr. directs Calvin University’s gospel choir, an ensemble that started as a club at the institution 38 years ago. When the club started, some at the university didn’t see gospel music as a tradition that belonged in higher…
Faith-based AI company Gloo faces moment of truth after $438M in losses
Scott Beck has long hoped the faith-based tech company he founded in 2013 would help churches and other Christian groups harness technology to spread God’s word and help save the world.
Nuns care for children with HIV, reintegrate them into Indian society
Nuns at the Infant Jesus Children’s Home in Bengaluru, southern India, were at a loss this summer.
A growing number of federations are asking Jews if they identify as Zionist — and grappling with the results
Yet another survey has found that fewer than half of Jews in an American city identify as Zionists — this time in Milwaukee, the childhood home of Golda Meir, the Zionist icon and former Israeli prime minister.
Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible
When the Pentagon cut roughly 180 faiths from its religious affiliation codes, shrinking the list from more than 200 categories to 31 in May 2026, it folded “Native American religion” into the broader category of “other religion” – one of many faiths the change…
After US Aid Cuts, the Sick Wonder Who Will Visit Them
One year after the US shuttered USAID and cut HIV funding, faith-based institutions struggle to stay in touch with rural patients who might fall through the cracks.
Inside a Christian mother’s fight against ICE activity in Chicagocu
Audrey Luhmann, mother of eight, patrols courthouses, responds to community alerts, gathers supplies for immigrants and cares for her family.
Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible
Removing the small codes does not consolidate a scattered population. It makes that population harder to see and therefore harder to staff for, plan around and justify spending on.
The Denomination That’s Half Evangelical, Half Black Protestant — And somehow holding together
A deep dive into Seventh-day Adventists
Muslims were part of America’s story long before the republic began
In the 1520s and 1530s, a man named Esteban de Dorantes, known as Estevanico, walked across the deserts of what is now Texas, New Mexico and Arizona – decades before the English founded Jamestown in 1607 and a full century…