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Trailblazing Episcopal priest Pauli Murray to be featured on US quarters
By Yonat Shimron — February 14, 2023
(RNS) — The civil rights lawyer, activist, writer and priest was also gender nonconforming.
They got us
By Phyllis Zagano — February 14, 2023
(RNS) — If people want to spend their millions promoting Jesus, they can. It’s a free country, after all.
The ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads brought back bad memories
By Kirsten Powers — February 14, 2023
(RNS) — How the Christian ‘seeker’ movement can cause serious harm.
Why students at a Kentucky Christian school are praying and singing round the clock
By Bob Smietana — February 14, 2023
(RNS) — Students have packed the chapel and overflow spaces at Asbury University for nearly a week, holding round-the-clock prayer and worship.
Christian nationalism needs to be distinguished from civil religion
By Mark Silk — February 13, 2023
(RNS) — The latest PRRI survey shows it's a Black-white thing.
Docuseries on Black church highlights history, links to biblical orthodoxy
By Adelle M. Banks — February 13, 2023
(RNS) — 'We wanted to show the substantive differences between the denominations but also show that the primary arguments were not about orthodoxy,' said producer Justin Giboney.
Oldest schoolhouse for Black children in US moved to museum
By Ben Finley — February 13, 2023
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the U.S. was hoisted onto a flatbed truck and moved a half-mile Friday (Feb. 10) to Colonial Williamsburg, a Virginia museum that continues to expand its emphasis on African American history.
His popular blog debunks Christian myths. With the profits, he does the Christian thing.
By Yonat Shimron — February 10, 2023
(RNS) — Bart Ehrman is known for challenging established Christian teachings. But there’s a part of him that still honors his abandoned Christian faith and what he sees as its moral obligations, such as giving to charity.
Samaritan’s Purse sends 52-bed field hospital to Antakya, Turkey
By Yonat Shimron — February 9, 2023
(RNS) — The organization, run by founder and president the Rev. Franklin Graham, said it will also send more than 100 medical and technical staff to the ravaged region.
What is Black History Month in a white Christian nation?
By Andrew Whitehead — February 9, 2023
(RNS) — A new PRRI/Brookings survey demonstrates the historical repercussions of Christian nationalism.
Poll: A third of Americans are Christian nationalists and most are white evangelicals
By Yonat Shimron — February 8, 2023
(RNS) — A new PRRI survey finds that 10% of Americans are avowed Christian nationalists and an additional 19% are sympathetic to its ideals. Among white evangelicals, nearly two-thirds are Christian nationalists or sympathizers.
To be ordained, would-be PCUSA pastors had to interpret the worst story in the Bible
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 8, 2023
(RNS) Some are criticizing the mainline denomination’s choice to base its recent winter exegesis exam on the biblical story known as ‘The Levite’s Concubine.’
Who will lead the spiritual awakening for Black men?
By Candice Marie Benbow — February 8, 2023
(RNS) — Faith is the antidote for the venom that gets spewed at Black women from Black men.
New Tim Keller Center for Apologetics hopes to help churches reach a changing country
By Bob Smietana — February 7, 2023
(RNS) — Named for the popular author and retired pastor, the new center hopes to help churches deal with a ‘post-Christendom’ America.
In bitter wartime winter, missionary warms Ukrainians with stoves, blankets
By Adelle M. Banks — February 7, 2023
(RNS) — Ken Ward’s ministry colleagues compare the missionary, who has spent the equivalent of more than two months in Ukraine, to well-traveled biblical figures.
