The Knox County District Attorney’s Office says it is “reviewing all pending cases” involving a Knox County Sheriff’s deputy who made anti-LGBT sermons “to scrutinize them for any potential bias.”
Southern Baptist historic gavel a reminder of racist legacy
It turns out that gavel, the so-called 1872 Broadus gavel, has a questionable history — especially in a church body that has sought racial reconciliation within its ranks.
Secularism is on the rise, but Americans are still finding community and purpose in spirituality
Twenty-four percent of Americans don’t affiliate with any religion, according to a 2016 Public Religion Research Institute survey, which is up 8 percentage points in the past five years.
Evangelical Publisher’s Africa-Themed Bible School Kit Had Kids Pretending To Be Slaves
Group Publishing, a Colorado company that creates educational resources for churches, published a vacation Bible school (VBS) curriculum this year that had kids pretending to be Israelite slaves and making up new names in what it called a “click language.”…
Boisterous faith leaders and a silent Pete Buttigieg rally against Trump at White House
A diverse band of faith leaders and at least one presidential candidate descended on a park outside the White House on Wednesday (June 12), gathering to decry what organizers called the “evil” policies of the Trump administration.
As opioid epidemic spreads, a NC church opens its doors to a syringe exchange
The Rev. Sarah Howell-Miller, a United Methodist minister, once opposed needle exchange programs for opioid addicts — a stance shared by legislators in some three dozen states. The idea of giving addicts the means to shoot up was, in Howell-Miller’s…
The populist right is forging an unholy alliance with religion
Clearly there is a key link between populism and religion. But there seems to have been relatively little academic interest in the connection.
Why the nation’s two largest religious groups are talking about sex abuse this week
When leaders of the country’s two largest religious groups — the Catholic Church and Southern Baptist Convention — hold meetings this week, the separate conferences will have a common agenda: clergy sexual abuse.
Christian Agencies Fight for Migrant Kids’ Right to Play
As the federal government threatens to stop funding English lessons, soccer games, and other programs deemed “not directly necessary” for migrant children in US care, Christian groups have defended the crucial role of these activities and pledged to keep them…