Jack Jenkins
Expelled Tennessee lawmakers find support among clergy
The last time Tennessee legislators tried to make the Bible the state’s official book, a pastor warned them to be careful what...
State lawmakers push for priests to report abuse learned about in confessional
Catholic leaders are pushing back against efforts to alter state laws that exempt clergy from reporting child abuse they hear ...
LCMS president calls for excommunicating White nationalists
The president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has called for the excommunication of unrepentant White supremacists in th...
After Roe, 50th March for Life a turning point for abortion protests
Frank Pavone, an anti-abortion activist who was until recently a Catholic priest, addressed a small crowd outside a Planned Pa...
William Barber launches new center at Yale, will retire from church
Yale Divinity School is launching a new Center for Public Theology and Public Policy, an advocacy-focused body to be led by pr...
Diverse coalition of faith leaders advocate for expanded child tax credit
Faith leaders joined members of Congress on Capitol Hill Thursday to voice support for the expansion of the child tax credit, ...
MacKenzie Scott gives $15 million to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has awarded Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service $15 million in donation funds...
In new ad, DeSantis paves way to replace Trump as 'anointed one'
In an advertisement unveiled November 4 on the Twit...
Poll: Nearly half of US wants a Christian nation
Forty-five percent of Americans believe the US should be a “Christian nation,” one of several striking findings from a sweepin...
WCC head meets with Patriarch Kirill
The acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches met this week with Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Orthodox Church...
Ron Sider, evangelical activist, dies at 82
Ron Sider, an author, seminary professor and evangelical social justice activist, has died, according to an online update from...
Faith leaders attend celebration of gun control law
Faith leaders from a wide range of traditions, including those whose houses of worship have been attacked, were at the White House on July 11 as members of Congress and other gun control advocates ...
Faith groups gather at Supreme Court after leak
Jamie Manson, head of Catholics for Choice, was watching Netflix when Politico published US Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion arguing for overturning Roe v....
Muslims and Jews worried about Twitter under Musk
Muslim and Jewish organizations are expressing concern about billionaire Elon Musk’s impending ownership of Twitter, warning that the aerospace tycoon could roll back moderation policies and unleas...
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks about faith
Immediately after President Joe Biden introduced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the US Supreme Court on February 25, the federal appeals court judge stepped up to the podium and appe...
Immigration reform no longer unites faith groups
Back in 2013, creating a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States was the rare issue that virtually all major religious groups in the United States could ...
Conservative PAC sues Biden administration, targets liberal Catholics
The conservative political action committee CatholicVote is suing President Joe Biden’s administration in an effort to secure records of communication between the US government and Catholic groups ...
In new book, Mark Meadows confirms Trump Bible photo op was Ivanka’s idea
A new book by Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows offers a detailed account of the former president’s infamous Bible photo op at St....
Who is ISIS-K, the group officials blame for the Kabul airport bombings?
A horrific terrorist attack at the Kabul airport on August 26 killed at least 12 US service members and more than 60 Afghans attempting to flee the country....
Former Trump ambassador launches international religious freedom conference
Sam Brownback, former US ambassador for international religious freedom in the Trump administration, helped launch a conference on international religious freedom in Washington, DC, on July 13, bri...