A new estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau asserts Hispanics make up a larger segment of the Texas population than any other group—a demographic reality particularly significant to Texas Baptists.
Biden to host first-ever White House Rosh Hashanah party
President Joe Biden is bringing a Jewish High Holiday celebration to the White House for the first time.
Jewish LGBTQ nonprofit will fund Yeshiva University clubs as school halts them
A Jewish LGBTQ organization announced Tuesday (Sept. 20) that it will step in to provide funding for all student clubs at Yeshiva University after school officials suspended all undergraduate student groups rather than recognize an LGBTQ campus group, the YU…
Four House Republicans vote against bill on international religious freedom
Four House Republicans voted against a bill on Monday that seeks to reauthorize appropriations for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Amid Myanmar’s Civil War, Unity Emerges
For the first time since anyone can remember, members of Myanmar’s majority Bamar people are seeking long-term solidarity with the country’s ethnic minorities.
Homeland Security appoints a new 25-member security faith advisory council
The Department of Homeland Security has announced the appointment of a new, 25-member faith-based advisory council to assist Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in finding ways to protect houses of worship.
He Could Be Our First Jewish President. But First He Needs to Beat a Christian Nationalist.
In one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the poorest big cities in the country, blocks away from where a woman was gunned down just the day before, Josh Shapiro is singing with a group of Black pastors.
New museum exhibit seeks to show Samaritans are more than a biblical parable
Growing up, when Steven Fine learned about the Kutim, the Samaritans, in the Talmud, the references “went in this ear and out the other.” In 1977, he met a Samaritan for the first time at one of the salons the late…
Glenn Beck’s Nazarene Fund Won’t Say How It Spent $35 Million Raised For Afghan Evacuations
As the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in Aug. 2021 and the Taliban quickly took over the country, government and private organizations worked to evacuate as many people as they could.
Baptist Women in Ministry: Broken systems can be reshaped
Too often, men have overlooked and silenced women who have sought to proclaim the gospel or exercise leadership in the church, Meredith Stone told the Texas Baptist Women in Ministry Conference.
Why China feels threatened by the moral authority of a 90-year-old Catholic bishop
Cardinal Joseph Zen will stand trial on Sept. 19, 2022, in Hong Kong for his role as a trustee of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. This organization paid legal fees and medical bills for Hong Kongers protesting the Extradition Law Amendment Bill.
As the religiously unaffiliated rise, a new atheist podcast network launches in Los Angeles
Revealing that you are an atheist can be a real conversation starter, but those conversations rarely go beyond the question of your beliefs, or lack thereof. A new podcast network for secularist thinkers, Atheists United Studios, attempts to show that there’s…