[ad_1] (RNS) — With summer in full swing, our attention, in an ideal world, would be divided between planning vacations and wrangling children, with the coming election a far-off problem for the fall. Sadly, the state of our politics isn’t allowing us that luxury. As citizens we often feel as if we have to choose […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Connecticut businesswoman and former U.S. Senate candidate Leora Levy’s prayer before this year’s Republican National Convention was filled with distinctive Jewish references. After thanking God on Monday night (July 15) for former President Donald Trump, Levy, who is on the national leadership of the Republican Jewish Coalition, prayed for Corey Comperatore, who […]

[ad_1] “Ancient Evil, Living Hope” books will explore treachery, miracles, and ultimate hope Bestselling author and television personality Kathie Lee Gifford is set to release her newest book, Herod and Mary: The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mother of the Risen Savior (July 16, 2024; W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Two years ago, faced with low Mass attendance, deepening political and theological divisions and the continuing fallout from the clergy sexual abuse crisis, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops set forth on a campaign that will come to fruition this week in Indianapolis, where Catholics will pack a National Football League stadium […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — In late March of 2021, the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP) filed a class action lawsuit charging the U.S. Department of Education as complicit “in the abuses that thousands of LGBTQ+ students endured at taxpayer-funded religious colleges and universities.” The case, Elizabeth Hunter, et al v. US Department of Education, was thrown […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — On an episode of the “Bodies Behind the Bus” podcast Wednesday (July 11), two former members of the Village Church Denton in Denton, Texas, alleged that church leaders employed a custodian for five years, despite knowing he had previously admitted to sexually abusing a child. The custodian, they said, was Steve Chandler, […]

[ad_1]  The political climate in the last few weeks has left many feeling overwhelmed and scared, waiting for the next shoe to drop. The increasing collaboration of right-wing groups to rally around Project 2025 shows the threat of what the Christian nationalist right’s interpretation of the Bible – and of America – might look […]

[ad_1] In a victory for anti-abortionists, most of them—according to a recent Public Religion Research Institute survey—White Christian nationalists—the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion two years ago. Across the spectrum of Christian and non-Christian religions, however, a majority of Americans support at least some access to abortion. Some of those religions […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Reactions from faith leaders and fellow politicians to Donald Trump’s narrow escape from an apparent assassin’s bullet called upon God’s protection for the former president and for the nation.  “May God protect all who serve us,” wrote Albert Mohler, the president of Southern Baptist Seminary on X, after news broke Saturday evening […]

[ad_1] At this June’s annual assembly of the Unitarian Universalists in Rochester, NY, the voting delegates decisively embedded love into the bedrock of the faith, as 80 percent chose to adopt changes to its covenant clause, otherwise known as Article II of the faith’s bylaws. The change in the bylaws, which are essentially a mission […]