God’s Only Party in Dallas?
This issue of A Public Witness takes you through some of the highlights (or, uh, lowlights) of faith appeals at President Donald Trump’s ‘midterm convention.’
A Chapel Near Ground Zero Was a Relief Center After 9/11. Now, an Exhibit Honors Its Victims.
A new origami installation strings 2,977 paper cranes: one for each person killed in the attacks. The 'Ever Present' exhibition also features artifacts left there in the months after 9/11.
One Year After Charlie Kirk’s Death, Can Faith Hold Turning Point Together?
Religious language wasn’t always a mainstay of Turning Point. When Charlie Kirk first founded the organization in 2012, it focused on fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government.
What the AfD’s Victory Means for German Churches’ Influence
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Party scored a pivotal victory for the far-right in Germany, an outcome churches fiercely fought to prevent. Their inability to stop it and the spread of the party’s anti-immigrant agenda expose a deeper rift in communities in which churches were
Review: A Brief Guide to Ministry With LGBTQIA Youth
This updated edition includes a chapter on the intersections between LGBTQIA identity and neurodivergence and extra attention to how churches can respond to the assault on diversity and transgender rights in the current political climate.
Celebrating Religious Liberty at Colonial Williamsburg
This issue of A Public Witness takes you inside a recent conference that celebrated America’s heritage of religious freedom, with a special Seventh-day Adventist flavor.
Seven Vermont Clergy Arrested While Protesting ICE Targeting Center
'I think it is imperative on me, as a faith leader, to proclaim that human beings are not targets and that God is a God of justice and of love,’ said the Rev. Rebecca Girrell, a United Methodist pastor who was among those arrested.
As the Far-Right in Germany Aims to Take Power, Churches Are Fighting Back
The AfD may gain power on Sept. 6 in Saxony-Anhalt, posing a direct threat to refugees and the German churches that serve them. Inspired by past resistance in East Germany, faith leaders are doing everything they can to stand in the way of the far-right
Jerusalem Christian Protest Pushes Israel to Allow Palestinian Teachers to Return
The Christian schools said Israel’s permit denials had come ‘suddenly and without notice,’ leaving them unable to prepare for the 2026-2027 school year.
‘A Weaponized Bureaucracy That Chills First Amendment Activity’
As the Trump administration claims ‘anti-Christian bias’ under Biden, activists and mainline Protestant denominations are pushing back against ‘church invasions by ICE.’