In a joint op-ed published Monday by Medium, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the senior national leaders of the NAACP called for racial reform in America’s homes, schools, businesses and political bodies.
Trump’s Approval Among White Catholics Has Slipped
President Donald Trump’s favorability ratings have recently dipped among two religious groups that make up a core part of his religious base: white Catholics and white evangelicals.
A sliver of white evangelicals abandoning trump, but that may be enough
Donald Trump is losing the 2020 election, but you’d hardly know it by looking at the latest survey of various religious groups by PRRI (and by “various religious groups,” I really mean “mostly white Christians”).
Without annual meeting, amid decline, Southern Baptists continue debate on race, women’s roles
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…