Two experts on international religious freedom will be featured in a Baptist News Global webinar Thursday, March 3, at 3 p.m. Eastern time. The speakers are Wade Kusack, founder and president of Love Your Neighbor Community, a nonprofit that promotes…
Supreme Court to hear case of wedding website designer who won’t serve same-sex couples
First it was about wedding cakes. Now it’s about wedding websites. And the United States Supreme Court has agreed once again to wade into the troubled waters of evangelical Christian business owners refusing to serve same-sex couples. Although same-sex marriage…
Samford and Candler grad at center of Tennessee controversy over Bible history class in public schools
A middle school teacher with an undergraduate religion degree from a Baptist university and a master of divinity degree from a Methodist seminary now finds herself at the center of a controversy over alleged hate speech against Jews. Moreover, Chattanooga’s…
Jewish couple sues after United Methodist agency receiving taxpayer funding refuses to help them adopt a disabled child
Among the core beliefs espoused by Holston United Methodist Home for Children in Tennessee are assertions that “it is the birthright of every child to have a family” and that “the best place for a child to be raised is…
Justices appear skeptical of Boston’s reasons for excluding Christian flag
The latest religious liberty case heard by the United States Supreme Court should have been settled before it got to Washington, justices said during oral arguments Jan. 18. Yet the court accepted the case and spent 90 minutes debating it…
Religious freedom and human rights groups praise Biden for diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics
A broader-than-usual coalition of religious liberty and human rights groups are praising the Biden administration’s Dec. 6 announcement that the United States will not send a diplomatic delegation to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Although stopping short of a…
There’s another big religious liberty case coming to the Supreme Court next week
With all eyes fixated on the United States Supreme Court this week hearing oral arguments in the Mississippi abortion case, scant attention has been paid to another potentially landmark case before the court next week on taxpayer funding for religious…
If you’re upset about the Taliban, you should be upset about Christian nationalists too, panelist says
Americans shouldn’t judge the Taliban too harshly for its fierce opposition to religious pluralism in Afghanistan when the United States is host to the growing and violent Christian nationalist movement that inspired the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,…
In Boston flag case, ACLU and Biden administration take the side of a conservative Christian group
A conservative Christian group challenging the City of Boston before the United States Supreme Court has landed support from two unlikely allies — the American Civil Liberties Union and the Biden administration. At issue is a request by a Christian…