Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...
Our Muslim siblings have been under attack this week. While Muslim discrimination is not new, it’s taking more emboldened forms than ever before in the Trump era. Last Friday, it came in the form of a travel ban from seven…
Beginning Black History Month, President Trump met with a group of black leaders at the White House on Wednesday. During his remarks at this meeting, President Trump caused people pause when he explained, “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody…
We need to discover the roots for resistance that can be spiritually sustained for the long run.
James Madison wrote his “Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments” in part because a religious minority was being regarded with suspicion, dislike and mistrust. That religious minority was the Baptists.
As a committed liberationist-leaning Christian, I may have no choice but to say the Shahada and convert to Islam if I wish to be faithful to my beliefs. One of the bedrock principles of any liberative faith tradition is “solidarity…
Because compensation for chief executive officers has grown by over 1,000 percent in the last three decades, research dedicated to the profile of these CEOs has proliferated. Because the U.S. church — for good or ill — tends to take…
After President Trump’s executive orders, the future of U.S. refugee resettlement programs is uncertain. This is the second in a series on what that might mean for Syrians fleeing their war-torn country. Tomorrow: Refugee resettlement programs are endangered, thanks to Trump. How do they currently operate?
Our oldest child had a birthday recently. She is now grown and married, with children of her own. But you just never forget the birth of your first child. I was a pastor, so can you guess where we were…
The Trump administration has asked Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. to lead a panel on reform of higher education regulations, the leader of the evangelical Christian school said Tuesday.
Three days after setting up a fundraising page online, leaders at the Victoria Islamic Center were shocked to see that they had already surpassed their previous goal of $850,000, thanks to donations from over 20,000 people.
Judge Neil M. Gorsuch’s “one-sided view of religious freedom” makes the Supreme Court nominee a dangerous choice, said some religious liberty advocates after President Trump announced his choice to fill a vacancy on the top court Jan. 31.
Banning Muslim refugees from entry into the United States — even those vetted through a rigorous, 18-month process — is “really bad for our protection,” says an American Muslim who works closely with Christian churches in resettling refugees.
