Protestant
‘Wall of Silence,’ a podcast about abuse in ACNA, was silenced. Now, it’s back.
By Kathryn Post — August 29, 2024
(RNS) — A spokesperson said no one from ACNA’s national office had knowledge of Archbishop Beach or his staff asking for the podcast to stop.
Why I’m voting third party
By Karen Swallow Prior — August 29, 2024
(RNS) — Voting is an investment in the long-term future of the nation, not only something that will benefit us in our own lifetimes.
AME Church delegates name six new bishops while retaining same-sex marriage ban
By Adelle M. Banks — August 28, 2024
(RNS) — In a joint address, AME bishops called for the creation of ‘accountability measures for every elected and appointed leader within our church.’
Harris-Walz campaign hires the Rev. Jen Butler, longtime activist, to lead faith outreach
By Jack Jenkins — August 28, 2024
(RNS) — A familiar face among Washington’s faith-based activists, Butler said she brings ‘a broad set of relationships that I think can help, very quickly, pull a broad coalition together’ in a foreshortened Harris campaign.
In the face of Palestinian suffering, interfaith groups offer a protective presence
By Yonat Shimron — August 27, 2024
(RNS) — An interfaith delegation to Israel aims to provide support and accompaniment to Palestinians facing home demolitions, dislocation and violence from West Bank settlers.
Brazilians march for Eshu, an Afro-Brazilian deity, to protest Christian intolerance
By Eduardo Campos Lima — August 27, 2024
SÃO PAULO, Brazil (RNS) — A march in honor of the orisha Eshu drew some 150,000 people in São Paulo recently, considered a rebuke to the rise of evangelical Christians’ political power.
The Democrats need to be done with death
By Shane Claiborne — August 27, 2024
(RNS) — In a surprise move, the Democrats quietly removed abolishing the death penalty from the party platform.
AME Church announces retirement settlement agreement during General Conference
By Adelle M. Banks — August 26, 2024
(RNS) — ‘Church employees who served their community for years deserve the retirement funds they were promised,’ responded a lawyer involved in the litigation.
Anti-Trump evangelical Christians make the case for Harris
By Katherine Stewart — August 26, 2024
CHICAGO (RNS) — A group of mostly progressive evangelical political strategists are trying to help religious conservatives see Harris as the more biblically faithful of the two candidates.
John Lennon’s inspiration for ‘Strawberry Fields’ bears new fruit for Salvation Army
By Catherine Pepinster — August 26, 2024
LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom (RNS) — The Salvation Army is exploiting a connection to the Beatles to draw more visitors to fund its mission and encourage people who would never consider stepping inside a church to find out about Christianity.
How much does forgiveness cost? $7 million for one Christian college.
By Bob Smietana — August 23, 2024
(RNS) — A dispute over how to count employees may cost Gordon College, a Christian school in Boston, millions after its request to have a COVID-era loan forgiven was turned down.
As AME Church meets for General Conference, retirement plan questions continue
By Adelle M. Banks — August 22, 2024
(RNS) — Some 2,900 people have joined an ‘AMEs for Reform’ Facebook group and others have issued open letters as part of ‘AMEs for Justice and Accountability.’
Applying the moral wages of Watergate 50 years on
By Lovett H. Weems Jr. — August 22, 2024
(RNS) — What lessons might we draw from that scandal for our political dilemma today?
In a remote corner of Ohio, a traffic law brings Harvard to the aid of the Amish
By Kelsey Osgood — August 21, 2024
(RNS) — New safety measures mandate flashing lights on buggies, a requirement some conservative Amish say violates their faith. Harvard University Law School agrees with them.
Faith abounds at the Democratic National Convention, but don’t be surprised
By Jack Jenkins — August 20, 2024
(RNS) — Trump staffers have called the left ‘godless,’ but this year’s DNC painted a very different picture.
