The head of the Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee says he’s going to introduce a bill in the upcoming legislative session to close an exemption to the state’s child abuse and neglect reporting laws for members of the clergy.
Hundreds of US rabbis pledge to block extremists in Israeli government from speaking in their communities
More than 330 American rabbis, including some who occupy prominent roles in major cities, are pledging to block members of the Religious Zionist bloc in Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government from speaking at their synagogues and will lobby to keep them…
Frank Pavone, Leonard Feeney and the long story of Catholic fundamentalism
Not that there wasn’t a lot of other news last week, but I have found myself thinking about Frank Pavone, the crusading anti-abortion priest who was defrocked by the Vatican for disobedience and blasphemy.
Republican Jewish Group: George Santos ‘Deceived Us’
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) slammed Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) for lying about his heritage, claiming he “deceived” the group.
State lawsuits defend abortion access with religious freedom
Cara Berg Raunick watched with bafflement as Indiana’s Republican legislators took less than two weeks to debate and pass an abortion ban that the governor signed quickly into law.
A Bay Area Church Attempts Housing Reparations
In January 1963, the city council in Berkeley, California, passed a pioneering anti-segregation law that included criminal penalties for housing discrimination. But residents so fiercely opposed it that it was repealed via referendum only a few months later. One referendum supporter reportedly…
Shapiro’s big win is a high note amid antisemitism surge
Josh Shapiro will be taking office as Pennsylvania’s next governor in January after running a campaign in which he spoke early and often about his Jewish religious heritage.
How the battle over Christian nationalism often starts with homeschooling
The Rev. Jessie Johnson, teaching pastor at Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield, Virginia, rejects the idea of a Christian nation. “The government doesn’t establish churches nor should it,” he said.
Geneva Bible From The 16th Century On Display At Connecticut Church
In 2016, Ted Abercrombie called the Trumbull Church of Christ — where his great-grandfather served as one of the original elders — with an offer.
Education Secretary Cardona: ‘If it weren’t for my faith, I wouldn’t be here’
Miguel Cardona smiles as he recalls waiting backstage in December 2020 on the day then-President Elect Joe Biden was planning to announce Cardona as his nominee for secretary of education. Cardona remembers huddling with the president-in-waiting, of course, but says…
Signs of Salome, said to be nurse to baby Jesus, unearthed in Israel
Excavations of a cave reputed to be the burial place of Salome, said in non-canonical scripture to have been nurse to the newborn Jesus, have found more signs it was both an important Jewish tomb and a Christian pilgrimage site,…
Vatican II after 60 years
With the passage of 60 years since the opening of the Second Vatican Council, there are few people alive who remember the event, even fewer who participated.