Fellowship Southwest has received a $1.25 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to expand its existing immigration ministries across the next five years. Each year for the next five years, Fellowship Southwest will recruit churches along the U.S.-Mexico border to…
New book documents how Trump administration prioritized deporting Muslims
Fear swept through the African immigrant community in Ohio when Donald Trump took office in 2017 and vowed to implement mass deportations and other hardline anti-immigration measures, activist Demba Ndiath said. Even longtime U.S. residents without criminal offenses grew increasingly…
World leaders are too slow in preparing for another pandemic, report warns
In the last four years since COVID 19 struck and devastated the world, a rash of measures have been proposed by health authorities in different countries aimed at curtailing the virus and averting new ones. Now, some experts say the…
America’s founding rejected a king and a state religion, Raushenbush and Bowen say
Juneteenth and Independence Day offer models of the kind of religious freedom America should embrace, according to Interfaith Alliance President Paul Raushenbush. “On July Fourth in 1776, the Founders declared independence from a king who was given absolute power because…
Kanakuk survivors calling for support as Peter Newman’s parole hearing approaches
Serial child sex abuser Peter Newman will be eligible for parole later this year due to the terms of his sentencing, and survivors of his abuse at Kanakuk Kamps are opposing that possibility. Newman is one among a long list…
Du Mez, Bass and Tisby warn: Project 2025 is a Christian nationalist blueprint
Project 2025 is a Christian nationalist blueprint for taking control of every level and facet of American government, and scarier still is that most people know nothing about it, scholar and author Kristen Kobes Du Mez said during the “The…
NRA members say they’re stocking up on ammo before presidential election
Weeks before the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, three-fourths of a sample of members attending the National Rifle Association annual meeting said they would be stocking up on ammunition ahead of this fall’s presidential election. The vast majority of NRA…
Ultra-conservative county judge bans Baptist pastor from Commissioners Court meetings
A Texas pastor whose congregation has taken an active role in pushing for more humane policies in Tarrant County has been banned for one year from speaking at Tarrant County Commissioners Court meetings. Ryon Price, pastor of Broadway Baptist Church…
Some evangelicals changed their minds on abortion bans after Roe was overturned
The largest decline in support for fully banning abortion after the U.S. Supreme overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 was among evangelicals, political scientist Ryan Burge said in a recent “Graphs About Religion” report. The Substack post combines statistics from…
Texas school district gets its injunction against Title IX changes, for now
District Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas has issued a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of Education’s changes to Title IX in a lawsuit filed by Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas. Carroll ISD, represented…
Two evangelical political action groups merge with hopes to reach 1 million voters
Family Policy Alliance Foundation and Christians Engaged, two conservative Christian groups focused on political activism, have merged so they can “sign up 1 million Christians to engage in the upcoming U.S. presidential election and local elections across the country for…
Johnny Hunt tells his side of the story, including his definition of ‘adultery’
Johnny Hunt finally got to tell his side the story about what happened at a beachside condo in 2010, when he is accused of sexually abusing a pastor’s wife the age of his own daughters. In a court deposition taken…