James Talarico isn’t the only Democratic candidate making faith a calling card of his campaign this year. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed will face Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Aug. 4. In a fundraising letter this week,...
“There are violent Catholics.” said Pope Francis. “If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.”
Two stories. Two young men. One white. One black. It was a number of years ago now. I was a pastor in the suburbs of Washington, in a multi-ethnic congregation of people from the very poor to the quite wealthy….
In previous U.S. elections, polls consistently showed that a person’s level of religiosity was one of the biggest predictors in how they would vote. That correlation appears to be weakening.
Their fingerprints are on the food we consume, these men leave wives, children, parents, extended family and their communities to spend a minimum of seven months a year working in the U.S. guest worker program.
As Joe Padilla visits with pastors and church leaders about mental health, he often finds hearts willing to help but ill-equipped to do so. After walking through his own personal journey when his wife was diagnosed as bipolar, Padilla realized the church needed…
The leader of North Carolina’s Moral Monday movement has been calling for a moral revival — similar to the “revolution of values” of Martin Luther King Jr. — and he distilled that message in a barn-burning 10-minute speech at the DNC.
Although Clinton has confessed a certain reticence when it comes to “advertising” her faith, she has consistently testified to her Methodist faith over the course of her long career in politics.
Amidst the injustice that surrounds and overwhelms, with all of the wrenching questions and heartbreaking prayers and pressing violence, is there anything any more important for a church to do than to ensure that the children are well and welcome?
Here’s the thing: If we start banning citizens from attending public events for one of the two people who will be our next president, we are sliding down a slippery slope to a future reality that is a very, very…
Who we choose to be informs how we will live and move and have our being in this world. After all, we are people commanded to be known by the way we love one another. If that is our starting point in all things, we will see the good and hope and promise in the challenges before us.
This week’s electoral history, together with a new position for Mary Magdalene, the Church’s first evangelist, align in a strategic deconstruction of any and every sort of submission other than to the Beloved’s presence, purpose and promise.
We must stop using our law enforcement system as a substitute for a failing disability service system. The rates of justice involvement among people with disabilities reflect in large part the failure to offer people services such as supportive housing, employment services and mobile crisis services.
