Perhaps the oddest defense of white evangelicalism in recent weeks has been to acknowledge much of the harm they’ve caused while claiming it’s not due to their theology, but due to their ignorance. During this second Trump administration, patriarchal Christianity…
More lawsuits seek to prevent federal agents at polling places
A new lawsuit is the latest seeking to block the Trump administration’s plan to use armed agents to interfere with the midterm elections in November. The action asks the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to prevent federal…
Bishop Budde appears in ad urging Americans to vote
Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde appears in a new video ad urging all people to vote. The bishop, who made headlines in January 2025 for urging President Donald Trump at his inaugural prayer service to “have mercy” on immigrants and the…
Supreme Court sides with Trump on voter database
The Trump administration can use a controversial database to initiate state voter roll purges in the run-up to the midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Sept. 25. The 6-3 emergency stay follows a recent federal appeals court decision that…
You preach against slavery, so why not preach for voting?
Does your church or faith community embrace social justice and revel in the U.S. Constitution? You know — slavery is bad, military can’t live in your house, freedom of speech and all that? And your church, I’m sure, preaches about…
When you vote, remember Wilber Rafael Garces Perez
On Sunday afternoon, I was in Dallas preparing for our FaithWorks board meeting. I had just left Royal Lane Baptist Church and a screening of Jesus Was a Migrant, a film featuring our work, when I saw a notification of…
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s attack on voting by mail
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked part of a Trump administration effort to interfere with the midterm elections by instituting last-minute complicated rules governing mail-in balloting. The Sept. 14 ruling upheld a lower court decision preventing the U.S. Postal Service…
Groups seek to prevent Trump from sending armed agents to polling places
A new lawsuit seeks to prevent the Trump administration from violating federal law by sending armed federal agents into polling places during the midterm elections. The litigation comes in response to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s recent comments…
Trump appeals to Supreme Court to control voter database
The Trump administration appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 8 seeking clearance to implement a database it wants to use to purge voter rolls leading into the midterm elections. The move came just four days after a federal…
Lawsuit seeks to force Trump admin to disclose use of voter database
A nonprofit housing-justice organization filed a lawsuit to force federal agencies to disclose how they are using an immigration-related database to track benefits given poor and working Americans. Democracy Forward announced the litigation filed Aug. 26 in the U.S. District…
How would Jesus vote?
Is Jesus liberal or conservative? Let’s turn to science to help answer that question, through a study by Jer Clifton and Nick Kerry at the University of Pennsylvania. They have continued surveying the underlying beliefs that separate liberals and conservatives….
16th judge blocks Trump’s voter intimidation efforts
A federal judge said he had plenty of help figuring out how to deny the Trump administration’s bid for access to sensitive voter information from Washington, D.C. “At this time, 20 district courts and the Sixth Circuit have denied the…