Evangelical
I’m an evangelical against Trump … and genocide
By Shane Claiborne — August 20, 2024
(RNS) — Like many Christians, I find myself conflicted this election season.
Six young evangelicals on the 2024 election
By Kathryn Post — August 19, 2024
(RNS) — Religion News Service spoke to self-identified evangelicals in their 20s and early 30s about how their faith is informing their potential pick for president.
Christians, evangelicals rally for Kamala Harris ahead of DNC
By Jack Jenkins — August 16, 2024
(RNS) — 'Voting Kamala … (is) a vote against another four years of faith leaders justifying the actions of a man who destroys the message Jesus came to spread,' said Jerushah Duford, granddaughter of the Rev. Billy Graham.
How a movement to resist Christian nationalism took on Project 2025
By Ruth Braunstein — August 16, 2024
(RNS) — Project 2025 was the perfect test of this emerging movement’s capacity to see it, name it and fight it. And they did.
Why Catholic bishops rocked out to megachurch worship hits
By Bob Smietana — August 15, 2024
(RNS) — The rise in popularity of music from churches like Elevation, Hillsong and Bethel has helped launch a new kind of ecumenical movement.
Latino evangelicals push for immigration reform ahead of election
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — August 12, 2024
(RNS) — With rising political power, Latino voters will make their voices heard on immigration, but Latinos, including evangelicals, are far from a unified bloc.
In North Carolina, nearly 1,200 Southern Baptist churches participate in week of service
By Yonat Shimron — August 9, 2024
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Summers are often a time when congregations send out people to far off missions work. The state’s Southern Baptists envisioned something closer to home.
Appeals court rules against Dave Ramsey’s company in COVID-era religious discrimination case
By Bob Smietana — August 9, 2024
(RNS) — Brad Amos, a former video editor at Ramsey Solutions, claimed he was fired for failing to follow Ramsey's faith-based beliefs on how to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arab evangelical Christians invite Zionist evangelicals to restore ‘one body in Christ’
By Daoud Kuttab — August 8, 2024
(RNS) — The plea finds a ‘discernible missional gap’ between the Western church and the churches of the Middle East.
Whose Christianity do Christian nationalists want?
By Marci A. Hamilton — August 8, 2024
(RNS) — It was the diversity of Christianity, as much as other faiths, that inspired the founders' concern for religious liberty.
After a slew of controversies, the SBC turns to a low-key leader to keep things cool
By Yonat Shimron — August 7, 2024
CHARLOTTE (RNS) — Clint Pressley does not have a national following or a big social media presence. As SBC president, his goal is to tone down the acrimony.
At Americans United for Separation of Church and State, complaints of a troubled culture
By Bob Smietana — August 5, 2024
(RNS) — Under its president, Rachel Laser, Americans United has seen rising revenues and visibility — including a new campaign aimed at countering the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. But a staff union and former board members say that success masks internal conflict and a troubled work culture.
Meet Gen Z’s proselytizing Presbyterian reformer
By Fiona Murphy — August 2, 2024
(RNS) — Richard Ackerman, a 21-year-old Presbyterian convert and conservative activist in the church, is the contemporary televangelist Zoomers can’t stop watching.
Eliza Griswold’s ‘Circle of Hope’ is a portrait of an American church riven by discord
By Kathryn Post — August 2, 2024
(RNS) — ‘Circle of Hope’ is about a Philadelphia church struggling for survival amid financial strain, external crises and theological, political and personal clashes.
The religion of opposing government climate action
By Mark Silk — July 31, 2024
(RNS) — Is it climate denial or simply mistrust of government?
