Editor’s Picks
Check back daily for Bruce Gourley’s curated articles that are relevant to people of faith who wish to engage the critical issues facing our communities, nations and world.
September 6, 2023
H.B.O. is Tackling Religion in the Most Remarkable Way; What Really Happens When Americans Stop Going to Church; Mob Attacks on Christian Churches and Homes in Pakistan Set Off by False Implications, Police Say (and more)
August 8, 2023
About 100 Milwaukee Faith Leaders Launch Campaign Against Christian Nationalism; A Florida Baptist Leader Wants to Have a Chat with Governor DeSantis About History Standards; Moody Bible College Asks Federal Appeals Court to Allow it to Discriminate Against Women Pastors (and more)
August 7, 2023
What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban Understand About Your Brain; A Christian Nationalist DeSantis Appointment to Disney Board Taught Seminar Using Discredited Research Claiming White People Were Slaves in America; Oregon’s Greater Idaho Movement Echoes a Long History of Racism in the Region (and more)
August 2, 2023
White Christian Nationalist ‘Kingdom to the Capitol’ Tour Brings Support, Opposition to Boise; Dodgers Held Christian Faith and Family Day and No Gay People Protested; Bob Smietana: As Organized Religion Falters, the Devil Falls on Hard Times (and more)
August 1, 2023
Faith-Based Protesters Gather in Miami to Condemn Gov. DeSantis’ Education Standards on Black History ; First Legal Challenge to State-Sanctioned Catholic Charter School Filed in Oklahoma; Ukraine Moves Christmas to December 25, Distancing Itself from Russian Tradition (and more)
July 28, 2023
Trailblazing NC African American Pastor to be Featured on Highway Historical Marker; Two Texas Teachers Fired by Baptist Academy After Attending Drag Show; Science Recreates Biblical Fire to Reveal Secrets of Jerusalem’s Destruction (and more)
July 27, 2023
Faith Leaders Call on Lawmakers to Improve Heat Response in Arizona; How Christianity Conquered Rome Through Simple Math; Biden Honors Emmett Till and His Mother With New National Monument (and more)
July 26, 2023
A Missouri Church God Millions to Run Meals Program. Then Came Questions About Salaries, Spending.; A School Board in Missouri, Now Controlled by Christian Nationalists, Revokes Anti-racism Resolution; Thousands of Christians Demand Ban of Pro-Trump Event on Public Property (and more)
July 24, 2023
Science ‘Supersedes’ Creationism, Einstein Tells Religious Students in Newly Revealed Letter;‘Backbone of the Church.’ In the Wake of Baptist Debate, Oklahoma Female Clergy Share Stories; Rambling Donald Trump Dodged Answering Questions About His Christian Faith at Campaign Town Hall (and more)
July 14, 2023
Florida Rabbi Challenges the Bible on Library Shelves in Palm Beach County Public Schools; Some Evangelicals Rejoice at the Church of England’s Fossil Fuel Divestment; The Gunman Who Killed 11 People in Pittsburgh is Eligible for the Death Penalty (and more)
July 13, 2023
‘Get back in line with God’: Fundamentalism Christian YouTubers furious with Duggar documentary ‘Shiny Happy People’; The Surprising Share of Americans Who Don’t See Political Divisions at Church; Evangelical Churches Turn to US Jewish Nonprofit to Help Them Have Hard Conversations
July 12, 2023
Iowa Republicans Pass a New, 6-Week Abortion Ban; For Too Many Christians, the Lines Between Dominionism, Nationalism and Fascism are Blurred; Black Southern Baptist Churches Challenge Denomination’s Vote to Ban Women in Leadership (and more)
July 11, 2023
A Great Day in Africatown, Alabama: Heritage House Opening Surrounded by High Hopes; ‘Enough is Enough’: Ocala Church Calls for Justice for AJ Owens; Alabama May be the Mot Pro-Israel State in the Country (and more)
July 10, 2023
A Small-Town Georgia Preacher Fills Pews by Leaving No One Out; Kentucky Couple ‘Furious’ State Abortion Laws Meant They Couldn’t Hold Their Daughter to Say Goodbye; A Legal Scholar Sizes Up the Religious Argument Against Abortion Bans (and more)
July 7, 2023
United Methodists Lose One-Fifth of US Churches in Schism Driven by Growing Defiance of LGBTQ Bans; Killer Mike Talks Spirituality, Grief, Politics and Critics Ahead of His Charleston Show; A Texas Program Pushes Drivers to Pay Old Tickets – and Over 600,000 Have Lost Their Licenses, Deepening the Cycle of Poverty (and more)
July 6, 2023
Fort Worth Church Apologizes for Comments Made by Duggar Family in-law During Service; Hawley Slammed for Using Fake Founding Father Quote to Push Christian Nationalism on July 4; USC Researchers Use AI to Help Translate Bible into Very Rare Languages (and more)