In Election Year, Climate Faith Leaders Urge Voters to Make Environment a Priority
The environment continues to be a top concern for many voters, especially younger ones, and the issue crosses lines of faith and politics in ways that others don’t.
Trump’s Abortion Pivot Hasn’t Shaken Evangelical Christian Leaders’ Support
'I don’t just consider a candidate’s words, I look at their actions and what they have done,' said the Rev. Franklin Graham.
Center Honoring Trailblazing Lawyer, Civil Rights Activist, and Priest Opens in Durham
Known as the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, the refurbished two-story clapboard home will further the kind of progressive social causes Murray, an Episcopal priest who died in 1985, championed.
Partisan Bible Codes
This issue of A Public Witness opens up the Bible to debunk hidden partisan codes popping up in social media posts and sermons.
Takeaways From AP’s Report on JD Vance and the Catholic Postliberals in His Circle of Influence
Postliberals share the longstanding conservative Catholic opposition to abortion and LGBTQ+ rights but want a muscular government — one that they control.
Some Nonprofit Newspapers Endorse Candidates. So Why Can’t Churches, New Lawsuit Asks.
The federal lawsuit, filed by the National Religious Broadcasters, is the latest challenge to the so-called Johnson Amendment, which bars charitable nonprofits from taking sides in campaigns.
Harris-Walz Campaign Hires the Rev. Jen Butler, Longtime Activist, To Lead Faith Outreach
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.
Anti-Trump Evangelical Christians Make the Case for Harris
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.
Oklahoma Teachers Were Told to Use the Bible. There’s Resistance From Schools As Students Return
The resistance follows a summer order that propelled Oklahoma to the center of a growing push by conservatives to give Christianity a bigger role in public schools across the U.S.
How Much Does Forgiveness Cost? $7 Million for One Christian College.
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.