A Christian family who fled Germany to be able to homeschool their seven children say they now face deportation, 15 years after arriving in the United States and fighting for asylum.
Biden expands Civil Rights Act protections at 8 cabinet departments to include antisemitism
The Biden administration is aiming to counter antisemitic discrimination in federally-funded transit systems, housing, food programs and other areas — one of the most major actions the White House has taken since it unveiled a far-reaching strategy to combat antisemitism in…
9th Circuit agrees with panel, orders California school district to recognize Fellowship of Christian Athletes club
Sitting en banc, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court ruling and ordered the San Jose school district to recognize the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) as an official student club, despite the fact that FCA would…
As psychedelic-assisted therapy grows, so does interest from a new group: chaplains
Research on the therapeutic use of psychedelics is underway at several universities, and data continues to accumulate on how they may help with conditions from PTSD to depression.
Victims march to Rome to demand ‘zero tolerance’ on church abuse
A group of Catholic Church abuse victims and their advocates on Wednesday called on Pope Francis to enforce “zero tolerance” against clerical sex abuse, after completing a six-day pilgrimage to Rome carrying a large wooden cross.
AI Has No Place in the Pulpit
What should ministers do about artificial intelligence? Over the last year or so, we’ve been inundated with breathless stories about ChatGPT and similar programs that eerily mimic, equal, or surpass the voice, language, and powers of the human mind.
This Christian text you’ve never heard of, The Shepherd of Hermas, barely mentions Jesus − but it was a favorite of early Christians far and wide
People usually think about the Bible as a book with a fixed number of texts within its pages: 24 books in the Jewish version of the Bible; 66 for Protestants; 73 for Catholics; 81 if you’re Ethiopian Orthodox.
Greek court: Orthodox students cannot be exempted from religion classes
In an ongoing struggle between the Atheist Union of Greece and Greece’s Ministry of Education, Greece’s Council of State ruled this month that Greek Orthodox students cannot be excused from required religious education classes and said exemptions for non-Orthodox do not violate…
Why separating fact from fiction is critical in teaching US slavery
Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”