Faith Leaders, Health Care Advocates Arrested While Protesting GOP Budget Bill in Capitol
Capitol police said nine people were charged with ‘crowding, obstructing, and incommoding.’
Berliners Are Rediscovering Their Faith Outdoors Through Local Pilgrimages
Christian pilgrimage walks are a way for Berliners and visitors of all ages to engage with their faith without stepping foot in a church.
PCA Leader Bryan Chapell Offers To Resign After ‘Scandalizers’ Flap
Bryan Chapell, the stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in America, has repeatedly apologized for his comments made during a recent podcast about other church leaders.
An Interfaith Group’s 1950s MLK Comic Book Remains a Prominent Nonviolence Teaching Tool
‘You have done a marvelous job of grasping the underlying truth and philosophy of the movement,’ the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote to the creator of a comic book about civil rights.
90 Days After Judge’s Order, Trump Administration Has Failed To Restart Refugee Program
Faith groups say thousands remain locked in limbo as the administration drags its feet.
Queen Mary vs. King David
This issue of A Public Witness explores a monument that upsets the political and historical stories being told (or not told) and challenges the religious claims we often make.
It’s Not a Reprint. Why Sacred Harp Singers Are Revamping an Iconic Pre-Civil War Hymnal
The shape-note tradition emerged from New England’s 18th-century singing school movement that aimed to improve Protestant church music and expanded into a social activity.
On Anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, Christian Leaders Seek to Return to Ecumenism
Christian leaders stress that the council and its anniversary still have relevance in the modern day, despite theological divides.
African Christians Walk Hundreds of Miles for Uganda Martyrs’ Day
Joining this year are dozens of leaders from different Christian denominations, making the journey not only an expression of personal devotion but a public show of unity and spiritual leadership in a region challenged by political instability, poverty, and insecurity.
Gareld Duane Rollins, Whose Lawsuit Sparked a Southern Baptist Abuse Reckoning, Has Died
Rollins, who had long suffered from health issues, accused SBC leader and GOP activist Paul Pressler of years of abuse.