U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will vote on a reproductive rights bill when lawmakers reconvene in Washington this month, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to block Texas’ new six-week abortion ban.
Twitter permanently bans Greg Locke, pro-Trump, anti-vax pastor
A Tennessee pastor known for controversial stands on COVID-19 and the 2020 election has been banned from the social media giant Twitter.
Texas judge issues injunction against anti-abortion group on enforcing new law
A Texas state judge issued an injunction against anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life, blocking it from trying to enforce the new six-week abortion ban against Planned Parenthood in Texas.
Blocked from serving their church, Catholic women push for female deacons
Casey Stanton wanted to offer encouragement, love and healing to the inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, where she served as a chaplain intern a few years ago.
The gospel of Sherri Tenpenny: COVID-19 misinformation meets Christian nationalism
Testifying to Ohio state legislators in June, an osteopathic doctor from Cleveland suggested that COVID-19 vaccines could “magnetize” people’s bodies, or, alternatively, allow them to “interface” with cellphone towers.
Post-Trump, Christian nationalists preach a theology of vaccine resistance
About midway through his address to a crowd in St. Louis in late August, Greg Locke shifted gears. The goateed pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, had been regaling the audience — “patriots,” he called them…
Polish nun, cardinal who defied communism are beatified
Poland’s top political leaders on Sunday attended the beatification of two revered figures of the Catholic church — a cardinal who led the Polish church’s resistance to communism and a blind nun who devoted her life to helping others who…
For New York celebrity priest, 9/11 closure will come with tolerance for ‘every path to God’
On a weekday in Massapequa Park, New York, deep in the Long Island suburbs, Monsignor Jim Lisante sits on a faded but dignified patterned brocade sofa in a plush parlor at the rectory of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church,…
Militia leader gets 53 years in Minnesota mosque bombing
The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque was sentenced Monday to 53 years in prison for an attack that terrified the mosque’s community.
Bishop John Shelby Spong, firebrand who championed LGBTQ inclusion, has died
Bishop John Shelby Spong, a bestselling author and cleric known for his progressive theology and his support of LGBTQ clergy in the Episcopal Church, has died.
Obituary: Helen Jean Parks
Helen Jean Parks, former missionary to Indonesia and advocate for missions causes, died Sept. 13. She was 93.
Evangelical Lutheran church installs 1st transgender bishop
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday.