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March 21, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Christian Preacher’s Challenge to University; Defending White Privilege, Christian School Demands Right to Discriminate Against Employees in the Name of Religious Freedom; Mormon Church Gives Water to Boost Imperiled Salt Lake (and more)
March 20, 2023
South Carolinians Haley and Scott Aim to Win over Christian Conservatives in Their Home State; Archaeologists Uncover Roman-Era Church Mosaic Along Israel National Trail; Wyoming Governor Signs Measure Prohibiting Abortion Pills
March 17, 2023
Roman Aristocrat Unearthed in Ancient Cemetery that Could Show Britain’s Shift to Christianity, Anglo-Saxon Society; Va. Church Where George Washington Prayed Honors its Enslaved Builders; 100 Years Ago, this Church Was Built with Stones from the River (and more)
March 16, 2023
Evangelicals Are the Most Beloved US Faith Group Among Evangelicals; and among the worst-rated by everybody else; Black, Evangelical and Torn; A Progressive College in the Northeast Has a Proposal for Unhappy New College Students
March 15, 2023
In today’s curated news and analysis headlines: AR-15 Lapel Pins are More than Provocation: They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism; Hate Crimes See Another Increase, Data Says; Citing the Bible, Oklahoma Republicans Vote to Let Teachers Hit Kids with Disabilities (and more)
March 14, 2023
Trump vs. DeSantis: Florida Pastors Mull Conservative Issues; New York Church, Part of Tubman National Park, Will Open to Visitors This Year; Retired Virginia Prison Chaplain Recounts Life as a Guide to Condemned: ‘A Story I Needed to Tell’ (and more)
March 13, 2023
Worrisome Finances, Role of Women as Pastors: Key Takeaways from Top SBC Committee Meeting; Catholic Group Spent Millions on App Data that Tracked Gay Priests; Students at B.C. Christian University Push for LGBTQ Chaplain (and more)
March 10, 2023
Women Sue Texas Over Abortion Ban, Say it Risked Their Lives; Wisconsin Pastor and Members ‘Stunned’ and ‘Heartbroken’ as Church Leaves United Methodist Church Over Gay Marriage, Clergy; ‘We’ve Slipped into Forgetfulness’: Charleston Church Shooting Survivors Demand Gun Control; Critics Charge that Conservative Donors are Pushing the American Catholic Church to the Right (and more)
March 9, 2023
Baptist Joint Committee Gains Faith and Justice Center, Grows Religious Liberty Work; In Florida, Latino Evangelicals Mobilize Against DeSantis’s Crackdown on Immigrants; My Baptist Church Had Men in Drag When I Was a Child. I Wasn’t Traumatized. (and more)
March 8, 2023
In today’s curated news and analysis headlines: Prince of Peace? Christian Nationalists Push Jesus as Military Leader; ‘He Gets Us’ and Sleazy ‘Swift Boat’ Ads Share Central Figure; Archaeological Discovery of Inscription Referencing King Darius of the Bible ‘is not Authentic’ (and more)
March 7, 2023
Colorado’s Jews Worry Over Rise in ‘Ancient Disease’ of Antisemitism; Miami Faith Community Strains to Help New Exiles, Immigrants; How an Oklahoma Church Got a Grant to Study the Possibility of Removing Part of Interstate 244 (and more)
March 6, 2023
Jimmy Carter Embodies the ‘Road Not Taken’ by Many White Evangelical Christians; ‘Take Back What the Devil Stole’: A Black Church Struggles to Find Answers After Fire; God and Pot: Both Sides Sight Faith ink Oklahoma’s Recreational Marijuana Fight (and more)
March 3, 2023
Many Differences Between Liberals and Conservatives May Boil Down to One Belief ; Push to Require Clergy to Report Abuse Stalls in Mormon Utah; Historian, Former Republican Says Christian Nationalism Threatens Democracy
March 2, 2023
Outcry After New York Mayor Dismisses Separation of Church and State; How Evangelical Voters Swung from Carter to Trump; Irish Americans’ Connections with Their Heritage Remains Strong Due to Draw of Ireland’s History and Culture (and more)
March 1, 2023
Jimmy Carter: Family Affair to the White House and Beyond; In Florida, Neighbors Concerned Over Affordable Housing Proposal on Church Land; ‘Our State is at War With Our Family’: Missouri Clergy with Trans Kids Fight Back (and more)
February 28, 2023
A Brief History of the Black Church’s Diversity and its Vital Role in American Political History; Measles Case Confirmed in a Person Who Attended Kentucky Spiritual Revival Event; Conservative Christian and Muslim Groups Want Faith Protections Added to LGBTQ Rights Bill (and more)