Thirty-seven Maryland churches sought to leave The United Methodist Church and take their properties with them, but the Appellate Court of Maryland has said the churches must pay to leave. On Oct. 5, the state appellate court affirmed a lower…
Paxton allies smeared every American who seeks mental health care, Kinzinger says
The false story about James Talarico leaving the campaign trail to seek mental health treatment insulted millions of Americans, according to former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger. Kinzinger, who represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from…
Staff layoffs and resignations reported at Christianity Today
Christianity Today is in “chaos” with staff departures and layoffs, according to the editor of another Christian journal. Warren Cole Smith, editor of MinistryWatch, wrote Oct. 12 that “even from the outside, the chaos (at CT) is not hard to…
Talarico appears at Black megachurch in Dallas
The Texas Legislature is “so focused on the 10 that they forget about the two,” James Talarico told a Dallas megachurch Sunday, Oct. 13. His reference was to the Legislature and governor’s fixation on the Ten Commandments, wanting all public…
North Carolina faith leaders oppose off-campus religious classes
More than 125 North Carolina faith leaders joined together to urge the governor and legislature to reject a state budget provision guaranteeing public school students up to four hours per week of off-campus religious instruction. The release time for religious…
Christa Pike back on Death Row in Tennessee
Tennessee execution survivor Christa Pike has been released from a Nashville hospital and is back in the maximum-security prison where she was imprisoned for more than three decades before her botched lethal injection last month, her attorneys said. “She is…
Catholic and Methodist leaders condemn livestreamed firing squad
Roman Catholic and United Methodist leaders have joined the condemnation of Pete Hegseth’s planned livestreamed execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Any Catholics assigned to the firing squad are “obliged” to request to be excused from this action, which is “contrary…
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American Jews should ‘know their place,’ William Wolfe says
Conservative American Jews should “know their place,” a Southern Baptist influencer told a gathering in Israel last week. William Wolfe, a former Trump administration official and founder of the Center for Baptist Leadership, spoke at the first National Conservatism conference held…
‘Time for a theological confrontation’ with Christian nationalism, Taylor says
“It’s time for a theological confrontation,” according to one of the nation’s foremost scholars of Christian nationalism. Matthew Taylor, a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice, is promoting his new book published last week. Defying Tyrants…
Republicans falsely claim Talarico was in mental hospital
Republican apologists rushed to claim Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico lied by saying he was off the campaign trail last week due to the flu. He was instead, they insisted, receiving out-of-state mental health care for an emotional breakdown….
Tammy Sue Bakker apologizes to those hurt by her father
The daughter of Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker has broken years of silence and issued a public apology “to anyone who has been hurt by the church or my family’s ministry over the last 60 years.” Unlike her brother,…