Two Romanian men claim a church in California is responsible for the fact that they were repeatedly raped as children in orphanages in the Eastern European country.
Have Clergy Made Any Wage Gains Recently?
I’ve been on the staff of three American Baptist Churches in my life. Let me tell you about the most awkward part of the process of getting hired at one of those: negotiating salary and benefits. I’m not a bashful guy by any stretch…
Pope Leo talks Trump, sex abuse scandals, LGBTQ+ welcome and China in his first interview
Pope Leo XIV said in his first interview as history’s first American pope that he has no intention of getting involved in U.S. politics but will raise his voice on issues of concern to the Catholic Church, including on immigration.
‘It is genocide,’ Bernie Sanders says about Gaza, becoming the first US senator to do so
Bernie Sanders has become the first U.S. senator to label Israel’s conduct in Gaza as a “genocide,” in an essay posted Wednesday to his Senate website.
After Charlie Kirk’s death, Rev. Barber says discussions should be ‘rooted in truth’
Rev. William Barber said in an interview with Morning Edition that the job of ministers like himself is to “call out” divisive, dishonest language from those in power. “We have to have a strong moral voice rooted in our values,…
When Violence Is the Vibe
For some of us, this brings a sense of foreboding that goes beyond the deaths of these human beings made in the image of God. It portends a country seemingly on the brink of something unspeakably dark.
Pope Leo talks Trump, sex abuse scandals, LGBTQ+ welcome and China in his first interview
Pope Leo XIV said in his first interview as history’s first American pope that he has no intention of getting involved in U.S. politics but will raise his voice on issues of concern to the Catholic Church, including on immigration.
Why faiths must lead on climate
The last nine months have been an unmitigated disaster for the climate. The Trump administration has decimated federal policy and programming that was advancing renewable energy, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and reducing carbon pollution. These actions are both…
A Progressive Christian Revolution
Many Christians have lost the radical message of that first-century Palestinian Jewish rabbi who called us to love so radically that we transform our hearts—even toward our enemies.
Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows
Based on our own research and a review of related work, we can confidently say that most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism.
UN Inquiry Concludes Israeli Actions In Gaza Meets Legal Definition Of Genocide
On Sept. 16, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, a subsidiary body of the Human Rights Council, concluded, on reasonable grounds, that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza…
Most American Jews say Trump is using antisemitism as an ‘excuse’ to silence free speech at universities
Four out of ten American Jews say they have personally experienced antisemitism in the past two years, yet a majority disapprove of how the Trump administration has addressed the issue on college campuses, according to a new survey.