[ad_1]  October 7th marks the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza – a war that is still raging and even spreading, costing tens of thousands of lives and untold suffering and trauma for so many in the region. This week, The State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s […]

[ad_1] (Image source: Selcuk Acar for Getty Images) At an Iowa rally in late 2023, former president Donald Trump proclaimed, “As soon as I get back in the Oval Office, I’ll also immediately end the war on Christians. I don’t know if you feel it. You have a war. There’s a war. . . Christians […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Two notable pastors, the Rev. Barbara Williams-Skinner, a public policy strategist and voting rights advocate, and Mack McCarter, founder and coordinator of Community Renewal International, will be honored with awards Monday (Oct. 7) by the Center for Christianity and Public Life at its second annual summit in Washington. The center is a […]

[ad_1] (Image source: Eric Thayer for the New York Times) The day after the 2020 election, before news outlets officially called the presidential race for Joe Biden, a woman got up in her church to preach. Petite, blonde, fashionably dressed, she spoke with the verve and cadence of a gifted televangelist enrapturing a crowd. Stamping […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Years before she donned a rainbow-colored stole and became known as TikTok’s Rev. Karla, Karla Kamstra was a child in Kentucky falling in love with Jesus in her grandmother’s Southern Baptist church. Now an unequivocally LGBTQ+-affirming interfaith minister, Kamstra is known for offering both sassy critiques of Christian patriarchy and pastoral wisdom […]

[ad_1] (MAGA hat on a Caesar statue. Image source: Boston Globe Staff Illustration) The gymnasium smelled of teenage body odor and sweat. Earnest adults were busy shooshing chatter and shepherding everyone inside. We sat on the wood floor, facing a makeshift stage under one of the basketball hoops. It was a Sunday night, sometime in […]

[ad_1] AMMAN, Jordan (RNS) — Preparing breakfast on a recent morning, Amany Khraisat listed imported products she stopped purchasing after Oct. 7. Instead of buying American condiments, the mother of two now chooses a local Jordanian brand. Instead of a Western laundry detergent, she’s switched to an Egyptian one. She no longer orders from McDonald’s […]

[ad_1] (Image source: iStock) In late-July 2024, a video resurfaced of Tucker Carlson’s 2021 interview with then-Senate candidate JD Vance in which he complained, “We’re effectively run in this country…by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Last week, America executed five people. We haven’t had that many executions in the U.S. in one week in over 20 years.  We also marked a terrible milestone during this recent execution spree — the United States carried out the 1,600th execution since the Supreme Court validated the death penalty as a […]

[ad_1] (Image of Taylor Swift from Time magazine) Much ado has been made about Republican V.P. candidate JD Vance’s repeated comments about the problems of childless Americans, from fearmongering about “childless cat ladies” to warnings about the supposed crisis of “radical childless leaders in this country.” What we haven’t heard much this election season, by […]