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The site of colonial America's break with the Church of England and the mother church of the nation’s first Black denomination sit less than a mile from each other.

There has been sustained outreach by Ukrainian Baptists and other evangelicals to their American counterparts who hold sway politically within the GOP — an increasingly isolationist party with standard bearers who remain skeptical of Ukrainian aid.

‘I was surprised at how many people were interested in this,’ said Protect Democracy’s Chris Crawford, who has led discussions with faith leaders about possible election scenarios.

This issue of A Public Witness listens in on the anti-Amendment 3 sermon effort across the Show-Me State.

This issue of A Public Witness looks at how Trump, along with several pastors and conservative Christian activists, lied about shouts of “Lies!” at a recent Harris rally — and his supporters responded by taking the Lord’s name in vain.

Jerome Copulsky’s “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” is a tour de force documenting the religious illiberalism that has challenged democratic values from the very beginning.

Parents of Louisiana public school children from various religious backgrounds filed the lawsuit arguing that it violates First Amendment language forbidding government establishment of religion and guaranteeing religious liberty.

In “The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy,” Matthew Taylor shows how some of the more extreme beliefs of American evangelicalism have begun to take hold in the mainstream.

Scholars and family members of the famed theologian worry conservatives will use a new Bonhoeffer movie to promote Christian Nationalism and political violence.

Richard Joyner has a new rejoinder to his congregants: 'God is not flooding the land. Our behavior is destroying the environment.'