Review: Hope Is Here!
In “Hope Is Here!: Spiritual Practices for Pursuing Justice and Beloved Community,” Luther E. Smith Jr. prepares us to engage racism, mass incarceration, environmental crises, divisive politics, and indifference.
San Juan Archbishop Condemns Racist Jokes at Trump’s New York Rally, Demands Trump Apologize
Archbishop Roberto O. González Nieves was echoed by the Rev. Gabriel Salguero, who heads the National Latino Evangelical Coalition.
Two Historic Philadelphia Churches Offer Lessons for an America Divided Today and in Its Infancy
The site of colonial America's break with the Church of England and the mother church of the nation’s first Black denomination sit less than a mile from each other.
Pastors Preach Against Missouri’s Abortion Ballot Measure
This issue of A Public Witness listens in on the anti-Amendment 3 sermon effort across the Show-Me State.
When ‘Jesus’ Becomes a MAGA Rally Chant
This issue of A Public Witness looks at how Trump, along with several pastors and conservative Christian activists, lied about shouts of “Lies!” at a recent Harris rally — and his supporters responded by taking the Lord’s name in vain.
Review & Giveaway: American Heretics
Jerome Copulsky’s “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” is a tour de force documenting the religious illiberalism that has challenged democratic values from the very beginning.
Judge Hears Arguments to Block Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Displays in Schools
Parents of Louisiana public school children from various religious backgrounds filed the lawsuit arguing that it violates First Amendment language forbidding government establishment of religion and guaranteeing religious liberty.
Review: The Violent Take It by Force
In “The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy,” Matthew Taylor shows how some of the more extreme beliefs of American evangelicalism have begun to take hold in the mainstream.
Stop Taking Bonhoeffer’s Name in Vain, His Relatives and Scholars Warn Eric Metaxas, Project 2025
Scholars and family members of the famed theologian worry conservatives will use a new Bonhoeffer movie to promote Christian Nationalism and political violence.
‘Not an Act of God.’ How the Rev. Richard Joyner Became a Farmer, Then a Climate Activist
Richard Joyner has a new rejoinder to his congregants: 'God is not flooding the land. Our behavior is destroying the environment.'