The same Mississippi Legislature that proclaimed racial reconciliation after removing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag nearly two years ago passed a bill Thursday to limit how race can be discussed in classrooms.
Ukrainian American Churches Deploy Praise as a Weapon
On Sunday, Ukrainian evangelicals in New York City gathered in their churches and wept, vented, and sang, feeling the existential threat to their loved ones and their homeland alongside people around the world.
Methodists, Mormons back latest Scouting bankruptcy plan to fund survivor claims
Two faith groups that have long supported the Boy Scouts of America have committed to take key roles in the scouting organization’s latest bankruptcy reorganization, the fallout from tens of thousands of claims of sexual abuse in its ranks.
A twisted love story: how American evangelicals helped make Putin’s Russia and how Russia became the darling of the American right
If someone from 1965 were to arrive in a time machine, there’s likely much about our current state of affairs that would shock them. But I cannot imagine anything that would be more confusing than the love affair between the…
Dylann Roof takes church shooting appeal to US Supreme Court
Attorneys for convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide how to handle disagreements over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys, an issue that has played a role throughout his case over the…
SCOTUS Won’t Weigh Whether Christian College Profs Are Ministers—For Now
At some point, the US Supreme Court will have to consider whether Christian college professors are legally ministers, and who decides that, and how, Justice Samuel Alito said in a statement on Monday.
Idaho kills bill allowing public money for private education
A House panel on Tuesday rejected legislation that opponents said would have harmed education by transferring more than $1 billion dollars of public money to private and religious schools.
Red Sox release minor leaguer after social media attacks on Jewish executive Chaim Bloom
The Boston Red Sox released a minor league player following an antisemitic and homophobic social media outburst, in which he specifically targeted the organization’s chief baseball officer, Chaim Bloom, who is Jewish.
California bill could make it easier for houses of faith to build affordable housing
As IKAR, a Jewish congregation in Los Angeles, has developed plans to build a new synagogue and affordable housing on its property, it has encountered a big obstacle: parking.
Abortion rights bill faces dim chances in U.S. Senate
A bill to protect the right to have an abortion in the United States died in the Senate on Monday after it failed to garner enough Republican support to pass a procedural vote.
Six months in, “no end in sight” for Texas’ new abortion law
When Texas’ restrictive new abortion law went into effect Sept. 1, clinics, advocates and even some who supported the legislation thought it might quickly be blocked by the courts. Six months later, the law is still standing.
Prominent Christian Leaders And Groups Face Reckoning Over Praise For Putin
For most of the past century, America’s conservative Christians and conservative politicians were united in the firm belief that the communist USSR — and later, Russia — was anti-American, anti-God and a threat to the world. In the 1950s, a…








