Editor’s Picks

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

‘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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)