Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are deeply interwoven, and a threat to one is a danger to the other, representatives from more than 20 faith and civil rights organizations said. “We come together as librarians, diverse clergy, constitutional...
In my childhood, there were moments when Mama would say, “I’ve had about all I’m going to take of you, young man.” I mention Mama because Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas needs Mama’s admonition. Jeffress has this haughty habit…
The Christian community and the broader church leadership landscape recently lost a true giant. Kennon Lee Callahan — researcher, professor, author, pastor and legendary church consultant — died on the second Sunday of September, just two months shy of his…
The U.S. government was founded to serve the American people, not to proselytize them, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. But U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins have…
Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are deeply interwoven, and a threat to one is a danger to the other, representatives from more than 20 faith and civil rights organizations said. “We come together as librarians, diverse clergy, constitutional…
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…
An alliance of faith, labor and civil rights is needed to address the interlocking challenges of racism, xenophobia, militarism and authoritarianism currently looming over American democracy, said Willie Francois III, second vice president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention. “There…
Changes made to the governing documents of Highland Park United Methodist Church in 2022 were to “ensure that if the church maintained its ecclesiastical connection with the UMC, it was legally insulated from the ecclesiastical and doctrinal strife within UMC,”…
Days before Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s planned visit to Washington, D.C., former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback told a gathering of religious freedom advocates the Chinese government is “at war with faith.” Brownback said the Sept. 16…
The Founding Fathers have returned from the dead to speak once again, thanks to AI-generated videos, and their views on current events seem to align with the views of their creators. A video posted by President Donald Trump shows George…
America knows the photograph: Nine courageous teenagers walked into Little Rock Central High School while an angry white segregationist resistance made Arkansas the center of an international civil rights crisis. America knows Daisy Bates. We know Gov. Orval Fabaus. We…
An unseasonably humid, gray Thursday morning on Chicago’s South Side was the setting for a unique gathering of faithful souls, and one deceptively simple proposition: Religious liberty is not what its name suggests if it applies only to the familiar,…
School vouchers may not be explicitly on the ballot this fall, but gubernatorial elections in at least six states could influence the future of private school choice, education savings accounts and the use of public dollars for private education. The…
