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In LA, faith leaders protest to stand up for the detained and keep the peace

Jack Jenkins

Opinion

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ is a huge, ugly disaster

Thomas Reese

A Jewish group is taking turns fasting to bring attention to starving Gazans

Yonat Shimron

Faith leaders, lawmakers argue GOP bill benefits the ultra-wealthy by hurting the poor

Jack Jenkins

WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘May your will be done, and may this bill be killed,’ said the Rev. Teresa Hord Owens, general minister and president of the Disciples of Christ.

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Slideshow: SBC annual meeting in Dallas

Kit Doyle

Visions of family, faith clash as Idaho marks ‘Traditional Family Values Month’

Tracy Simmons

LGBTQ teens wanted a Pride festival in their town. How five churches made it happen.

Rachel Berkebile

Opinion

Choosing peace together: a Muslim and Jew call for peace in a time of violence

Afsheen Shamsi and Liz Cohen

Opinion

As Alcoholics Anonymous turns 90, a look at the Serenity Prayer’s eternal relevance

Dwight Lee Wolter

Omar Suleiman

Abolish ICE. This time for real.

(RNS) — Born out of the flawed and Islamophobic logic of securitizing supposedly inherently dangerous populations, ICE was never about justice or order.

Christina Littlefield

100 years ago, the Social Gospel movement pushed to improve workers’ lives – but also to promote its vision of Christian America

(The Conversation) — How has white Christian nationalism changed since the Gilded Age? A religion scholar compares the Social Gospel with the Christian right today.

Jeffrey Salkin

Liberal Jews are reclaiming their Zionism

(RNS) — A massive victory for liberal Jews happened at the World Zionist Congress election.

Netanyahu’s government could collapse over Israel’s ultra-Orthodox military draft law

Melanie Lidman

BNEI BARAK, Israel (AP) — The threats coming from the ultra-Orthodox could be posturing, and many expect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pull off a last-minute deal.

Satanic Temple accuses Iowa officials of religious discrimination

Hannah Fingerhut

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Satanic Temple Iowa's application for a display and event in December 2024 was denied, a decision that the organization says violated its members' constitutional rights and Iowa civil rights law.

A field guide to ‘accelerationism’: White supremacist groups using violence to spur race war and create social chaos

Art Jipson

(The Conversation) — A scholar of right-wing extremism provides an overview of some of the key white supremacist groups that pose significant threats to public safety.

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