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.
National Baptists Choose Connecticut Pastor Boise Kimber As Next President
Disqualified challengers hoped sufficient ‘no’ votes would cause the election process to restart.
Members of Shuttered Rwandan Churches Gather in Homes as Leaders Quietly Protest
After a crackdown on unapproved churches, Christian leaders say the government's move encroaches on religious freedom and applies regulations unequally.
National Baptists Hear Their Outgoing President and Ketanji Brown Jackson As Meeting Ends
Jackson described how faith, especially instilled by her now late grandmother, had undergirded her personal and professional life.
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.
Want to Write a Hit Worship Song? Invite a Few Friends to Church.
When the CCLI Top 100 chart first appeared in 1988, most of the songs had one writer. Today, the average hit worship song has at least two writers — who often have ties to the so-called Big Four megachurches.
Review: Hope Restored
In “Hope Restored: Biblical Imagination Against Empire,” Walter Brueggemann points us toward understanding hope not as easy optimism but as an honest facing of the unjust structures that human beings have created and a call to lean into Scripture for an alternative way.
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.