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This issue of A Public Witness hops on a cross-country bus to sightsee the pluralist resistance to Christian Nationalism — and picks up some religious hope for our divided country along the way.

Nostalgia for a ‘Christian America’ overlooks the realities of religion in the founding era — which included taxes, jail time, exile, and even public hangings for anyone who defied state-run churches.

Fear of violence recently prompted Grace United Methodist Church’s pastor to join Choices and Voices for Peace, a coalition of faith leaders from across the state.

After interrogating their beliefs, some onetime CCM artists are revisiting faith, trying on elements they’d previously discarded and writing music for listeners who might be more spiritual than religious.

This issue of A Public Witness journeys to the Big Apple to consider two coincidentally timed appeals: Rev. William Barber II at Riverside Church and the Trump campaign at Madison Square Garden.

In “Hope Is Here!: Spiritual Practices for Pursuing Justice and Beloved Community,” Luther E. Smith Jr. prepares us to engage racism, mass incarceration, environmental crises, divisive politics, and indifference.

Strikes in the traditionally ’safe’ areas where many displaced families have fled are raising fears among local Christian residents. Many feel they have to choose between helping compatriots and protecting themselves.

Archbishop Roberto O. González Nieves was echoed by the Rev. Gabriel Salguero, who heads the National Latino Evangelical Coalition.

The creators say the Idaho pastor represents an increasingly mainstream biblical patriarchy movement with dangerous implications.

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.