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We’re missing 90 percent of the Dakota Access Pipeline story

What unifies the thousands of water protectors is devotion and prayer. Tribal leaders told us repeatedly these aren’t protests; these are ceremonies being held at a sacred place. Understanding the spirituality driving this struggle was an eye-opening experience.

Fidel is dead, but I won’t dance in the streets

For many of my compatriots, belonging is measured by the intensity of righteous indignation generated toward Fidel. If I don’t join them in dancing in the streets, then I must truly be an apologist for Fidel. But regardless as to how justified my hostility toward Fidel may be, I refuse to base my actions and responses on hatred.

Jesus, Trump and the American Dream

The election is over and the season of recrimination begins. Donald Trump will be president, some say, because rural white America is a sinkhole of fundamentalist racism. Others blame the outcome on the aloof arrogance of a latte-swilling “coastal elite”…

As Donald Trump railed against refugees, a pastor made his life among them

Comfortable in his Maryland home, the Rev. Eric So could not stop thinking about the plight of refugees. The pastor felt so moved that he made an unusual decision: He would not just be a pastor to these refugee families….

At Thanksgiving, the bigger person

This is not a call to loosen our belts, to push away from the table or to count calories this Thanksgiving. This is not an endorsement of products marked with claims of half the fat, low fat, skim or light….

Putting an end to prayer vigils

Jewish synagogues have been defaced with swastikas. Latina women have been threatened. Muslim women have been forced to remove their hijabs. On Veterans Day, Marie Boyle, a U.S. army veteran from the Philippines, was told to “Go back to Mexico.”…

Former SBC leader says ERLC out of touch with mainstream

A former Southern Baptist Convention leader who made the motion to sever ties with the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty at the SBC annual meeting in 1990 now says it might be time for Southern Baptists to “call it…

Religious groups to Obama: Dismantle immigration registry’s framework

Nearly 200 religious and civil rights groups are petitioning President Obama to dismantle the regulatory framework behind a Homeland Security program critics say discriminates against Muslims and Arabs.

Rewriting the biblical ‘curse’ on womankind

A change to a popular translation of the Bible could affect readers’ views on marriage and gender roles.

Transitions for the week of 11.24.16

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Rothangliani Chhangte, to American Baptist Home Mission Societies, as special assistant to the executive director for strategic priorities…

Recovering the soul of the Church

Jesus and his disciples were truly the “silent majority” in ancient Roman-occupied Palestine. It was inhabited mostly by Jews who were allowed to exist but had no political power and paid taxes from which they did not benefit. They were…

Under Trump, expect ranks of faith-based environmental protesters to swell

Some leaders of creation-care causes say anticipated rollbacks in anti-global warming policies and treaties, boosts in pipeline construction and fossil fuels use will generate sharp reactions by dedicated activists and inspire others to join the movement.

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war