Nation

This issue of A Public Witness features a guest post from Holly Hollman, general counsel and associate executive director at the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, reflecting on why the Religious Freedom Restoration Act still matters.

The march was intended as a response to numerous demonstrations across the country and the world — some led by Jews — calling for an end to Israel’s retaliatory strikes in Gaza.

Asked about Biden’s calls for 'humanitarian pauses' in the fighting, Barbara Williams-Skinner, CEO and co-founder of Skinner Leadership Institute, said: ‘It’s not adequate.’

Our reporting the day after Mike Johnson’s election to speaker of the House was the first to look at his preaching. One church we included in that story has removed his messages from its online sermons page — but not before Brian saved both of them.

The mix of religion, power, money, and influence around Nashville and its suburbs makes it fertile ground for a Southern evangelical take on Christian Nationalism.

The abortion debate in Ohio, the run-up to the vote made clear, is not a simple clash between religious and secular voters.

This issue of A Public Witness explores public comments implying the Old and New Testaments are pitted against each other — echoing an ancient heresy.

The moral and political battles among those who believe the government should not control a pregnant person’s body and those who believe abortion should not be considered an inalienable right have blurred the lines between religious and governmental wills.

'We don't need a pause, we need it ended — we need it to cease,' the Rev. Darrell Hamilton II said of the violence in Gaza.

Asked about Biden's proposal for ‘humanitarian pauses’ instead of a cease-fire, one demonstrator called it a ‘minimalist’ proposal.