The Southern Baptist Convention will not hold its annual meeting as it regularly does each June. But issues its members have long grappled with — including race and the roles of women — continue to be points of controversy in…
Muslim voters are getting organized for the 2020 election
This November, Jad Salamey will vote in a presidential election for the first time—and he’s hoping to bring his entire community with him.
American Bible Society leader: Don’t use the Bible as a political ‘prop’
The American Bible Society has added its voice to those urging caution about proper use of the Bible in political settings after President Donald Trump held a Bible aloft outside St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington earlier this week.
Trump tries religious gestures to hike support amid protests
Cloaking himself in religion for the second day in a row, President Donald Trump sought to seize the moral authority to justify his hard line against demonstrators protesting the killing of another black man in police custody and at the…
Even Pat Robertson Is Turning On Trump: ‘You Just Don’t Do That, Mr. President’
Televangelist Pat Robertson scolded President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his threat to send the U.S. military into American cities to control civil unrest.
The Pastors Already Planning to Rebel Against Future Shutdowns
America’s churches are slowly, bumpily reopening. Today is Pentecost, when Jesus’s apostles are said to have received the Holy Spirit, marking the founding of the Church. Congregations’ approaches to easing restrictions have varied widely according to geography and temperament. In…
African American Alumni Call on Jerry Falwell Jr. to Step Down
Nearly three dozen black alumni of Liberty University denounced school President Jerry Falwell Jr. on Monday, suggesting he step down after he mocked Virginia’s mask-wearing requirement by invoking the blackface scandal that engulfed the state’s governor last year.
US faith leaders lead congregations through tumultuous time
American religious leaders across faiths are grappling with the heavy burden of helping to heal two active traumas: rising civil unrest driven by the police killing of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic.
Rev. Barber: ‘Systemic racism is choking the life out of American democracy’
On Pentecost Sunday, after a night of unrest that swept the country in the wake of the brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of police, the Rev. William J. Barber II delivered what he called “a pastoral letter…