The Rev. Karmen Michael Smith wants to clean house — specifically what he sees as the lack of full openness by the Black church to people like him.
Three big numbers that tell the story of secularization in America
About six months ago, Americans’ belief in God hit an all-time low. According to a 2022 Gallup survey, the percentage of people who believe in God has dropped from 98% in the 1950s to 81% today; among Americans under 30, it…
West Virginians clash over religious freedom bill at hearing
Some people said West Virginia needs a law to codify the right of residents to challenge government regulations that interfere with their religious beliefs because of growing threats to their constitutional freedoms.
White supremacists behind over 80% of extremism-related U.S. murders in 2022
Mass shootings in the United States accounted for most extremism-related fatalities last year in the country with over 80% of those murders committed by white supremacists, data released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) showed on Thursday.
Jimmy Carter Was America’s Evangelical-in-Chief
After issuing a pardon for Vietnam-era draft resisters on his first full day in office in 1977, thereby closing a festering wound in the United States’ recent past, then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter informed his vice president, Walter Mondale, that one of his…
Israel’s rightward shift is straining its ties with US Jews
An array of U.S. Jewish leaders are sounding alarms about what they see as a threat to Israel’s democracy posed by its new government, fearing it will erode the independence of its judiciary and legal protections for minority groups.
Sage, sacred to Native Americans, is being used in purification rituals, raising issues of cultural appropriation
White sage, which is sacred to a number of Native American tribes in the southwest United States, has been adopted by both some contemporary Pagans and New Age practitioners for purification rites.
‘No Celebrities Except Jesus’: How Asbury Protected the Revival
The shofars didn’t start until Saturday. With them came the would-be prophets seeking to take center stage at the Asbury University chapel where students had been praying and praising God since Wednesday morning; the would-be leaders who wanted to claim…
Poll: Support for abortion rights is strong, even among most religious groups
Nearly two-thirds of Americans support legal abortion and those views have not budged much in the months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion and sent control over the medical procedure to the states.
How big Christian nationalism has come courting in North Idaho
Earlier this month, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican, addressed the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, whose purview runs from this small resort city up along the Washington state border.
LDS Church And Investment Fund To Pay $5 Million To SEC For Failing To Disclose Equity Investments
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Ensign Peak Advisers Inc. and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints agreed to pay $5 million in penalties to settle charges against the investment fund operating inside the nonprofit entity of the…
Neo-Nazis rally outside Broadway preview of ‘Parade,’ about an antisemitic murder
Members of a neo-Nazi group rallied Tuesday night outside the Broadway theater that is hosting “Parade,” a play about the 1915 lynching of a Jewish man in Georgia.