Virginia
After a teacher is removed for teaching about Gaza, who can Muslim students trust?
By Dilshad Ali — March 4, 2024
(RNS) — Schools are increasingly having to decide 'whose grief gets validated,' a local Muslim resident said.
Rep. Don Beyer on Faith and Democracy
By Ray Kirstein — January 6, 2024
State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with US Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), a member of the Congressional Freethought Caucus
Man brings gun and knives into a Virginia church service after vague online threats, police say
By Associated Press — September 26, 2023
(AP) — In recent years, there's been a stark uptick in concerning episodes at churches, synagogues, temples and mosques.
Can a teacher put John 3:16 in email signature? District says no; her lawyers say yes
By Adelle M. Banks — April 10, 2023
(RNS) — An official of a Virginia school district said its ‘determination is not based on any particular religious viewpoint.’
Excavation of graves begins at site of colonial Black church
By Ben Finley — July 19, 2022
(AP) - If human remains are found in the plots that are being targeted, DNA tests and analyses of bones will be conducted, said Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg’s director of archaeology.
A transqueer Latinx theologian writes about reaching ‘A Path to Our Liberation’
By Alejandra Molina — April 18, 2022
(RNS) — 'It's important for me as a trans person, as Latinx, to take place and to bear witness that even someone like me can follow the ways of Jesus and maybe imagine another possible world.'
African American Muslims among those targeted by anti-Muslim group
By Joseph Hammond — January 14, 2022
(RNS) — The Council on Islamic Relations is claiming the Investigative Project on Terrorism targeted African American Muslims through a multi-year effort.
UFOs and science fiction in Muslim culture goes well beyond ‘Dune’
By Joseph Hammond — November 19, 2021
(RNS) — In the Middle East, in particular, science fiction became an outlet for political criticism.
Despite white Christianity’s role in Capitol assault, some signs of hope and change
By Robert P. Jones — July 16, 2021
(RNS) — White Christians have only begun the work of reckoning with white supremacy.
100 years later, Black church leaders seek reparations for Tulsa massacre
By Adelle M. Banks — May 19, 2021
(RNS) — An African Methodist Episcopal pastor and other Black people of faith say the time has come to repay as well as to remember.
Faith groups celebrate Virginia’s death penalty ban
By Jack Jenkins — March 25, 2021
(RNS) — Some faith leaders are now hoping the Biden administration will follow suit.
A former Confederate state just voted to abolish its death penalty. Here’s why that’s a big deal
By Shane Claiborne — February 5, 2021
(RNS) — Virginia has a special place in America's history of racial terror.
Liberty University sues governor over financial aid changes
By Sarah Rankin — January 11, 2021
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The suit accuses Gov. Ralph Northam's administration of wrongfully denying financial aid to some of the evangelical school's online students.
Liberty University’s Falwell throws support behind ‘Vexit’
By Jack Jenkins — January 28, 2020
(RNS) — 'We have a rare opportunity to make history in our time,' Jerry Falwell Jr. said.
Virginia woman sues, says prayer break request cost her job
By Matthew Barakat — September 26, 2019
The lawsuit accuses the company's CEO of mocking her religious headscarf and refusing to hire her after the woman requested time for prayer instead of a full lunch break.
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