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Update: ‘ReAwaken’ tour reschedules New York event, denies racism

A nationwide speaking tour featuring prominent white Christian nationalists has rescheduled a stop in New York state after pro-democracy advocates succeeded in urging a venue in Rochester, N.Y., to cancel a mid-August event. Main Street Armory a former military facility…

Glimpses of grief reveal reality for women in ministry

During the summer of my Clinical Pastoral Education residency at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, all eight of us in the cohort experienced many deaths and sleepless on-call shifts. One day during education, we were noticeably and collectively “out of it.”…

Will White Christians respond to yet another police atrocity?

So, here we are again. Summer has come, another change of seasons. The 4th of July has passed, another celebration of America’s independence from England. And another young unarmed Black male killed by police. Another march in protest and another…

Don’t take preaching lessons from Christian nationalist Gen. Flynn

I’m attempting to wrap my mind around the idea of a former Army general telling me I should preach from the U.S. Constitution. I mention this only because Michael Flynn has been occupying American pulpits, recommending the Constitution as a…

Fletcher Seminary launches this fall, offering 2 graduate ministry degrees

Jesse C. Fletcher Seminary, a ministry-training school launched in the wake of Hardin-Simmons University’s 2020 decision to close its Logsdon Seminary, will begin offering two graduate degrees this fall. Fletcher Seminary is based in San Antonio in facilities of Baptist…

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…

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