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And that conversation’s inevitable limits.

Voter registration, reparations, immigration, climate change, health and gun control were among the topics discussed during the 58th annual session of the Progressive National Baptist Convention.

A group of clergy protested outside Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office on Tuesday, calling on the Republican Senate majority leader to take action to address gun violence in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend.

Republican Gov. Matt Bevin questioned Democratic challenger Andy Beshear’s faith and family roots on Wednesday and appealed to Kentucky Baptists to weigh-in on abortion as he lashed out at his rival’s first television advertisement. 

Morrison’s witness to language’s power to both destroy and create has been on ample display in our current season of American blood-letting.

Church leaders around the country largely deny any link between white-supremacist violence and their votes to “Make America great again.”

As the nation reacts to the weekend’s mass shootings and President Trump decries hatred that “devours the soul,” religious leaders called for action from his administration and Congress.

Attitudes about sex have come to signal a person or group’s attitudes about modernity itself. Arguments about gender roles, birth control, abortion, sex education, and LGBTQ rights have become central to the religious and political identity of American Christians.

In most states, they don’t have to.

The North American Mission Board has sued the city of Clarkston, Georgia, for blocking its plans to demolish two houses and build a $15 million complex and ministry center to reach refugees and internationals in a diverse community dubbed Ellis…

The presentation is one of many ways Americans are commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of “taken people,” as historical interpreter Valarie Holmes calls the first documented Africans who arrived against their will in Virginia.

Chris Arnade spent three years crisscrossing the United States to visit “the places you were told not to go to.” He shares what he learned in Dignity, a searing new book of essays and photojournalism.