Inmates at a New York prison who are being prevented from witnessing next week’s total solar eclipse have filed a lawsuit against the state corrections department, claiming that the decision violates their religious freedoms.
T.D. Jakes mentioned briefly in suit against music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
A lawsuit accusing music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual harassment, illegal drug activity and sex trafficking cites Bishop T.D. Jakes as someone who the rapper hoped would help improve his image.
A new book traces the influence of racism and imperialism on white Christian feminism
As a scholar of American evangelicalism, I often spend my time writing and teaching about the overt beliefs and practices that White conservative Protestants employ to further entrench Christian nationalism and White supremacy as American values. White evangelicals are, for…
GOP Senate Candidates Are Racing To Rewrite Past Abortion Positions. Democrats Are Counting On Voters To See Through It.
Sam Brown, the likely Nevada Republican nominee to take on Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), is hoping that a splashy interview alongside his wife is enough to cancel out his anti-abortion record. Control of the Senate this November could hang on…
Hispanic Evangelicals – A Growing Force?
I read a story a few weeks ago in the Free Press that had an intriguing title, “Latinos are flocking to evangelical Christianity.” The piece was an excerpt from a book called Latinoland: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie…
‘Midland Christian 5’ Say Wrongful Arrests Devastated Their Lives And Careers
Before life as they knew it disintegrated — before their jobs disappeared — Midland Christian School meant everything to Jared Lee and Dana Ellis.
Polygamous sect leader pleads guilty in scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children
The leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines in what authorities say was a yearslong scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children.
Nothing Lasts, And Yet No One Who’s Loved Really Dies
Every few months I take an outing with my three granddaughters that I call, “Shop With Your Pop ’Til He Drops Day.”
LGBTQ-inclusive church in Cuba welcomes all in a country that once sent gay people to labor camps
Proudly wearing a rainbow-colored clergy stole and a rainbow flag in her clerical collar, the Rev. Elaine Saralegui welcomed all to her LGBTQ+ inclusive church in the Cuban port city of Matanzas.