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Kansas school district gives $95,000 to teacher who violated its own policies on student names and gender

A Kansas middle school teacher who refused to call transgender or nonbinary students by their preferred names and pronouns has been financially rewarded for her defiance of school district policy — by the school district. Teacher Pamela Ricard will get…

A reflection for Labor Day: 7 good things about work

Work is good and essential in both a civilized society and a spiritual community. Maya Angelou aptly observed, “Nothing will work unless you do.” Work is not the essence of life, nor is the avoidance of work the key to…

GenZ South Africans remix tech, African spiritualism and church

They are Gen-Z Black South Africans, highly educated, raised in typical “Christian homes,” but now flipping the script. Via aggressive use of Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, they’re re-inventing themselves as entrepreneurial “Afro-spiritualist” healers, fortune readers or dream interpreters. It’s all…

Schools and spanking: Isn’t it time we stopped using religion to justify violence?

“Make education violent again” seems to be the slogan for a public school district in Missouri. The Cassville School District decided on June 16, 2022, to bring back spanking after parents requested for the schools to spank their kids. In…

If you think the Jackson water crisis is just about Mississippi, you’re all dried up

Mississippi is “the Magnolia State” where Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old African American boy, was abducted, tortured and lynched in August 1955. Mississippi is where Medgar Evers was murdered June 12, 1963. Mississippi is where three civil rights activists — James Chaney, Andrew…

Matthew Vines sets off a debate over what it means to be ‘queer’

Dear Mike Johnson, be careful what you ask for

What, to the white Christian, is America 250?

Four years later, anti-abortionists battle on other fronts

Kansas school district gives $95,000 to teacher who violated its own policies on student names and gender

A reflection for Labor Day: 7 good things about work

GenZ South Africans remix tech, African spiritualism and church

Schools and spanking: Isn’t it time we stopped using religion to justify violence?

If you think the Jackson water crisis is just about Mississippi, you’re all dried up

A view from the drought: How climate change and hunger and the war in Ukraine are conspiring against life in Africa

Faison nominated to lead Virginia convention

There’s a spiritual side to food

As the third consecutive woman to preside over CBF, Debbie McDaniel is just as surprised as anyone else

Frederick Buechner, Maya Angelou and Helen Lewis: Telling the truth

Just what we needed: Another pompous declaration from the conservative Calvinist evangelicals

The problem of fandom in churches

Pope promotes Italian nun to top migrant role in his first major appointment of a woman to Holy See

A Pastoral Response from BWA and UBLA

Amazon’s Second Season Of ‘Hazbin Hotel’ Reinvents Christian Redemption

Muslims were part of America’s story long before the republic began

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Matthew Vines sets off a debate over what it means to be ‘queer’

Dear Mike Johnson, be careful what you ask for

What, to the white Christian, is America 250?

Four years later, anti-abortionists battle on other fronts