Protestant
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.
Pastors’ first ladies, other Black church leaders organize support for Harris
By Adelle M. Banks — August 7, 2024
(RNS) — In two calls, both sponsored by the Black Church PAC, the primary goal was to secure votes for Harris.
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.
Meet Cathy, the new AI chatbot and Episcopal Church expert
By Kathryn Post — August 6, 2024
(RNS) — Unlike many of her religious AI predecessors, Cathy isn’t posing as a pastor or guru but a virtual guide.
Five faith facts about Harris pick Tim Walz, a ‘Minnesota Lutheran’ Dad
By Jack Jenkins — August 6, 2024
(RNS) — If elected, Walz would be either the first or second Lutheran vice president of the United States, depending on how you count it.
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.
Indian and Black, Hindu and Baptist: The multiplicities of Kamala Harris
By Richa Karmarkar — August 1, 2024
(RNS) — Kamala Harris’ hyphenated identity has become a chance for Americans to discuss how one person can represent multiple religions and races at once.
The religion of opposing government climate action
By Mark Silk — July 31, 2024
(RNS) — Is it climate denial or simply mistrust of government?
Trump’s ‘beautiful Christians’ are not the only ones whose values matter
By Ministers of Middle Church — July 31, 2024
(RNS) — The former president’s suggestion that he alone can fix our problems should raise alarms for any believer.
AME Zion Church meeting focuses on voting initiative, new bishops
By Adelle M. Banks — July 31, 2024
(RNS) — Among those elected during the meeting was Bishop Melanie Miller, the second and only living woman bishop in the historically Black denomination.
Bethlehem Moravian church settlement in Pennsylvania named World Heritage Site
By Kathryn Post — July 31, 2024
(RNS) — Founded in 1741 by a small band of Moravian Church immigrants, the historic district joins a list that includes the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza and the Eiffel Tower.
Interfaith protest confronts Christians United for Israel summit
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain and Jack Jenkins — July 30, 2024
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (RNS) — For nearly three days in and around Washington, D.C., an interfaith coalition challenged the pro-Israel messaging of pastor John Hagee and CUFI.
How Martin Luther King Jr. foresaw Mississippi’s new Episcopal Black bishop
By Joe McDaniel — July 30, 2024
(RNS) — King contrasted Mississippi’s past with his optimistic vision of the state as an ‘oasis of freedom and justice.’
