It’s been more than half a century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on scraps of paper, but faith leaders say his response to white clergy critics endures as a “road map”…
Shifting Shape To Survive: St. Gertrude’s Monastery Reaches Beyond Sworn Sisters
As a young mother with four spirited kids at home, Jane Somerton needed some serenity.
18 Christian Colleges Closed Since the Start of COVID-19
Iowa Wesleyan University freshman Emma Soukup started crying when she heard the news that her school, a 181-year-old United Methodist institution, would close at the end of this semester.
Kansas senator’s message to non-Christian constituents: ‘I would be happy to try and convert you’
A Republican senator told a Muslim woman that he would be happy to convert her to Christianity when she asked him how he planned to fairly represent all his constituents, not just those who shared his religion.
Texas Woman Who ‘Nearly Died’ Savages Ted Cruz At Senate Hearing Over Abortion Ban
Amanda Zurawski tore into GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn of Texas at a Senate hearing on Wednesday over the state’s abortion ban, saying she “nearly died on their watch” after being denied care in a pregnancy crisis.
What Are Evangelical Voters in Iowa Focusing On: Everything
Sitting in rows of rectangular tables and eating boxed dinners from Chick-fil-A, over a thousand evangelicals in Iowa got their first look at 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls.
Pope Francis clears way for women and lay Catholics to vote in upcoming bishops’ meeting
In a series of changes to the upcoming Synod of Bishops on Synodality announced Wednesday (April 26), Pope Francis cleared the way for lay women and men to participate as voting members.
Ron DeSantis’ stop in Israel highlights appeal to religious voters: Jewish and evangelical
The historic relationship between the U.S. and Israel will be Ron DeSantis’ main topic when he visits Jerusalem this week, but the trip also touches on the Republican Party’s appeal to two key groups.
Nikki Haley promised to address abortion ‘directly and openly.’ Then she didn’t.
Nikki Haley’s campaign had billed her Tuesday address on abortion as a “major policy speech” that would make clear her position on an issue that has tripped up many of her Republican opponents.
Harry Belafonte, singer and civil rights activist who popularized ‘Hava Nagila’ in the US, dies at 96
Barrier-smashing singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, who once boasted of being “the most popular Jew in America” because of his rendition of a Hebrew classic, died Tuesday at his longtime Upper West Side home. He was 96.
In rural Texas, spending taxpayer money on private schools is a hard sell
“If you will bow with me, please,” said Christopher Moran, superintendent of the Whitehouse Independent School District, after he was invited to pray to open a news conference outside the Tyler Independent School District building last month. T
Genocide resisters, long overlooked by history, step into the spotlight
The anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is marked every year on April 24. That was the date in 1915 when hundreds of Armenian community leaders were arrested by the government of the Ottoman Empire in the capital Constantinople, now known as Istanbul.