by Katie Huggins | Dec 22, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I read a headline recently: “Palestinian Christians lobby for a ceasefire, cancel Christmas festivities.” Bethlehem’s religious leadership felt large-scale Christmas celebrations would be inappropriate amidst “a massacre happening in Gaza and attacks in the West...
by Craig Nash | Dec 21, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
You can best describe my music of choice as “American Roots.” Before the 1920s, when entrepreneurs began to monetize music by fracturing it into marketable “genres” like “pop,” “hillbilly” and “race records,” it would have simply been called “music of the people.” It...
by Jon Singletary | Dec 21, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
“In His name, all oppression shall cease.” “O Holy Night” is one of my favorite advent hymns. This year, the line calling us to recognize that in Jesus’ name, all oppression shall cease resonated most deeply. I spend much of my time wrestling with the concepts of...
by Mitch Randall | Dec 20, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Good Faith Media was invited to attend the “Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery” conference in Syracuse, New York. I interviewed several scholars and speakers from the conference, which will be produced as...
by Anna Piela | Dec 20, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Reports of an antisemitic incident in the Polish parliament on December 12 marred news of Poland’s new government led by Donald Tusk being sworn in the next day. In the incident, a far-right member of parliament, Grzegorz Braun, used a fire extinguisher to put out a...
by Randall Balmer | Dec 19, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I’ve long argued that the First Amendment, with its guarantee of religious freedom and separation of church and state, is America’s best idea. The absence of religious establishment set up a free marketplace for religion and has therefore ensured a salubrious...
