Book Recommendation: American Caesar
Bradley Onishi’s new book details the rise of a class of ruling elites who seek to use religion and technology to replace democracy with authoritarian rule.
Cissie Graham Lynch, Granddaughter of Billy Graham, Tapped for Religious Freedom Ambassador
If approved by the Senate, Lynch would hold an office that has been unoccupied since the beginning of the second Trump administration.
RNS Tracked the Religious Lawsuits Against Trump’s Immigration Policies. Here’s What We Found.
Eighty religious plaintiffs from 11 major faith traditions have joined lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s immigration policies, according to a tracker developed by RNS with the Law, Rights, and Religion Project.
In Germany, Right-Wing ‘Christfluencers’ Hope to Follow the US Religious Right
Radicalized by COVID-19 and anger over immigration, right-wing pastors like Tobias Riemenschneider in Germany hope to gain followers by promoting conservative Christian views and politics. They have looked to religious right leaders and conservative influencers in the US for inspiration.
Hegseth Praises Bari Weiss’s ‘60 Minutes’ at Pentagon Worship Service
Wesley Welch of King’s Church DC delivered the sermon, becoming the ninth Southern Baptist pastor to preach out of 17 total services.
Review: Every Somewhere Sacred
We're often disconnected from the places we inhabit — cut off from nature, our neighbors, people different from us, and a sense of rootedness. Ben Norquist and Brian Miller show how Christians can develop a redemptive imagination for place.
Those Far From God, and Those Who Are Heard
There is a way to interpret Scripture that leaves a person almost permanently reassured — difficult passages become instruments for identifying enemies rather than mirrors for examining the soul. But the Bible consistently resists that reading.
Performative Submission and the Gospel of Free Market Capitalism
This issue of A Public Witness features an interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez about her new book 'Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made.'
Al Mohler Reverses Course, Rejects Blasphemy Laws After Controversy
The longtime president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said he erred in saying the government should be able to punish those who don’t believe God was part of America’s founding.
Hegseth Uses 9/11 Pentagon Ceremony to Push Religious War
The head of the U.S. military — who has Crusader imagery tattooed on his body and the cover of his Bible — spent the anniversary promising divine violence.