Monday’s RNS report starts off with a feature by Adelle M. Banks about Christian magazines crossing over into the secular market: “As a publisher we would like to get our message out to a broader and broader audience,” Stephen Strang, publisher of Charisma magazine, said in an interview. “There’s a new receptivity.”

Kim Lawton of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly reports on black churches taking the lead on ending what the United States calls “genocide” in Sudan’s Western Darfur province. “What we’ve been able to do is to mobilize our numbers and to say that we’re willing … to lay our bodies on the line,” says the Rev. Sean McMillan, the Lutheran pastor at Chicago’s Shekinah Chapel. With preaching, protests and poetry, the churches hope to make Sudan an issue on par with the anti-apartheid activism that mobilized the U.S. religious community in the 1980s.