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What is the ERLC and why do Southern Baptists keep getting mad at its leader?
By Bob Smietana — July 26, 2024
(RNS) — Turmoil at the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has increased calls to disband the denomination's public policy arm, but some SBC pastors say it can and should be saved.
‘A Well-Trained Wife’ unpacks life in Christian patriarchy
By Kathryn Post — July 24, 2024
Road to Majority conference showed how Trump plans to keep the Christian right close
By Katherine Stewart — July 23, 2024
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ERLC reverses course, now says Brent Leatherwood was not fired
By Bob Smietana — July 23, 2024
(RNS) — The kerfuffle over Leatherwood’s status, which played out in competing press releases from ERLC leaders, is the latest controversy for the SBC’s public policy arm.
Brent Leatherwood, ERLC president, fired a day after praising Biden
By Bob Smietana — July 22, 2024
(RNS) — Leatherwood had been criticized for other recent positions on topics of key interest to Southern Baptists, such as not supporting legislation that would have jailed women who chose abortions.
A fire severely damages the historic First Baptist Dallas church sanctuary
By Associated Press — July 20, 2024
(RNS) — The evangelical megachurch, whose senior pastor, Robert Jeffress, is a close supporter of Donald Trump, now holds its main services in a modern worship center next door to the historic sanctuary.
New show ‘The Promised Land’ tells Moses’ story in the style of ‘The Office’
By Kathryn Post — July 18, 2024
(RNS) — RNS spoke with writer and director Mitch Hudson, who is also a crew member on 'The Chosen,' about what's next for the new series.
Conservatives balk at Sikh prayer, but diverse religious voices are a convention tradition
By Jack Jenkins — July 17, 2024
Monday wasn’t even the first time Harmeet Kaur Dhillon has offered a Sikh prayer at an RNC gathering, nor was she the first to do so.
At RNC, an uneven, awkward embrace of religious pluralism
By Jack Jenkins — July 16, 2024
(RNS) — As a Republican official led a Sikh prayer, images of Christian crosses flashed behind her.
In ‘Disciples in the Moonlight,’ US Christians are persecuted and the Bible is banned
By Kathryn Post — July 16, 2024
(RNS) — Mike Pence praised the Christian action film as a 'cautionary tale' that should 'inspire people of faith to do even more to protect religious freedom in America.'
Hawley’s Christian nationalism is the old-time civil religion, weaponized
By Mark Silk — July 16, 2024
(RNS) — The way it was during the Cold War.
God did not save Donald Trump
By Shane Claiborne — July 15, 2024
(RNS) — Did God save the former president, but not those who died instead?
Matt Chandler under fire as podcast alleges Village Church hired father despite known abuse
By Kathryn Post — July 12, 2024
(RNS) — The allegations, which were shared in the 'Bodies Behind the Bus' podcast earlier this week, have sparked controversy online.
Prominent ‘queer affirming’ theologian facing trial by Church of the Nazarene
By Yonat Shimron — July 11, 2024
(RNS) — The Rev. Thomas Jay Oord is accused of teaching doctrines contrary to the Church of the Nazarene.
Students call for transparency as Cornerstone University guts humanities programs
By Kathryn Post — July 10, 2024
(RNS) — Several former faculty told RNS that the changes include the involuntary departures of six tenured faculty who had already signed contracts for the next school year.
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