The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear arguments in a dispute between officials in a central Florida city who encouraged residents to attend a prayer vigil and two atheists who claimed the city’s involvement violated the First Amendment.
Beth Moore: When I Was a Stranger in the SBC, Anglicans Welcomed Me
In March 2021, I made public my departure from the Southern Baptist Convention, the denomination I’d loved all my life and served since I was 12.
Reform movement leader on Israel: ‘It’s time to lean in; not walk away.’
It has been a foreboding few weeks in Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest, most powerful force in American Jewish life, was there to witness much of it.
Loaded Question: Is Gambling Evil? That’s A Religion-Beat Hook In Many States
Analysts anticipated a record high cash haul from the Super Bowl with the explosion in legalized online sports betting. The big weekend produced several interesting articles about the pros and cons, the inroads and innovations of America’s gambling industry.
Miami faith community strains to help new exiles, migrants
A few days after selling all she had to flee Cuba with her three children on a crowded boat, Daneilis Tamayo raised her hand in praise and sang the rousing opening hymn at Sunday worship in this Miami suburb.
Republicans are trying to build a multiracial right – will it work?
Former Republican South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley launched her bid for president recently in a video that began by describing the racial division that marked her small hometown of Bamberg, South Carolina.
Israeli Earthquake Rescue Team Returns 200-Year-Old Scrolls Of Esther To Turkey
The goodwill Israel earned when it sent a team of nearly 700 emergency medical responders to Turkey following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that devastated Hatay province on Feb. 6 evaporated after the revelation that the search and rescue team secretly…
Transgender pastor claims bias, sues Lutheran denomination
The Rev. Megan Rohrer, who was elected as the first openly transgender bishop of one of the largest Christian denominations in the country in May 2021, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was forced out from his post after enduring several…
Lessons From The Old Jesus Revolution For The New Jesus Revolution
Without knowing it at the time, I was a product of the Jesus revolution of the late 1960s and early to mid-1970s. Coming to faith in Jesus in 1971 as an LSD-using, heroin-shooting, Jewish, hippie rock drummer, I had no…
American rabbis, wrestling with Israel’s behavior, weigh different approaches from the pulpit
Rabbi Sharon Brous began a sermon at her Los Angeles synagogue last month with a content warning. “I have to say some things today that I know will upset some of you,” she began.
Faith leaders urge Biden to sign executive order for reparations study by Juneteenth
More than 200 interfaith leaders have requested that President Joe Biden establish a commission to study reparations for African Americans by signing an executive order by the newly recognized federal holiday Juneteenth.
Editorial: ‘Education freedom’ contradicts religious freedom
“Education freedom” is a euphemism that cuts the legs out from under arguments opposing public-funded private education. After all, who’s going to argue against freedom?