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Pro-democracy pressure forces ‘ReAwaken’ tour to skip Rochester

Opponents of a nationwide speaking tour featuring prominent white Christian nationalists and megachurches has scored a victory. Main Street Armory in Rochester, N.Y., a former military facility that hosts sporting contests, live music concerts, rallies and other large events, canceled…

Immigration advocates urge U.S. to reform cruel, broken asylum system

It’s one thing to hear or read about Title 42 but quite another to experience the Trump-era immigration policy firsthand, a Haitian asylum seeker said during a recent webinar hosted by interfaith immigration advocates. In fact, Title 42 is a…

Four truths from ‘The Gospel According to Stranger Things’

My wife and I are huge fans of the Netflix series Stranger Things. We’ve watched all the episodes, usually more than once, and we always watch them as soon as they’re released. Honestly, the show is one of the main…

Arizona shields foster, adoption agencies from discrimination lawsuits

Arizona’s faith-based adoption and foster-care agencies soon may refuse to work with people whose religious views differ from their own. Opponents of the new law protecting those agencies insist it will harm children who need safe, loving homes. The Arizona…

Most Americans oppose high court’s decimation of church-state separation, surveys show

Despite recent Supreme Court cases that chopped chinks in the “wall of separation” between church and state, most Americans believe government and religion should butt out of each other’s business, according to polls conducted by the Pew Research Center. The…

To reclaim its role as community thought leader, the church must reflect on its action and its record

I was reading church minutes, bored out of my mind. Not the first time, nor probably the last. Then, I wondered: Why? Why was I so disconnected from what these markers of congregational history have to say? Perhaps some of…

What the curious history of ‘Judeo-Christian’ can teach us about defeating white Christian nationalism today

The hearings conducted by the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol have highlighted the powerful role that white Christian nationalism played in the attack on the Capitol. The Congressional Committee featured Trump ally…

Spiritual direction provides a path for personal healing and a way forward for the church

It’s evening, and I’m sitting at my home desk in front of a computer screen. I have a Zoom room opened up. Once again. I have been here a million times before, except this time, the lights are dim, the…

Frowns all around: World drops to new low on sadness scale

Globally, emotions took a deep dive in 2021, surpassing negativity levels documented the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and hitting all-time lows in terms of stress, sadness and worry, a new Gallup poll shows. The June survey revealed negative…

Baylor’s Drew recounts journey from basketball scandal to national championship

When Scott Drew became head coach of Baylor University’s men’s basketball team in 2003, he took on arguably the worst job in all of college sports. Almost two decades later, he looks back on the Bears’ road to recovery and…

Fact-finders highlight ethno-religious violence in Nigeria, while State Department declines to act

Christians and Muslims both fear they will be “eradicated” in Nigeria, a fact-finding team from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom discovered. Last year, the commission, known as USCIRF, asked the U.S. State Department to label Nigeria, Africa’s most…

To fight against injustice, opt for unapologetic skepticism over cynicism

I earned a degree in political science, served as an officer in the U.S. Army, earned a law degree, practiced and taught law, chaired a state agency, presided as a state appellate and trial judge, and have been actively involved…

Rise of American authoritarianism demands a choice, Perryman says

Shaving Dad goodbye

The Enhanced Games were another MAGA grift

It’s bad interpretation, not the Bible, limiting female pastors