NEW YORK (AP) — Many are weighing how to make amends through financial investments and long-term programs benefiting African Americans.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘For me it was reminiscent of cross burnings,’ said the Rev. Ianther M. Mills, pastor of a church whose Black Lives Matter sign was burned.

(RNS) — With kids and the internet involved, virtual pageants, it turns out, are just as delightfully unpredictable as more traditional performances at churches.

SALISBURY, North Carolina (RNS) — In one of the most conservative cities in North Carolina, a United Methodist pastor gingerly approaches racial issues without alienating his flock.

NEW YORK (RNS) — ‘We are devastated and crushed that our beloved physical sanctuary at Middle Collegiate Church has burned. And yet no fire can stop Revolutionary Love,’ said the Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis.

(RNS) — It’s an idea whose time has come as the pandemic stretches into the Christmas season.

(RNS) — Some prominent Christians have sought to offer comfort or answers to life’s biggest questions in new books published since the coronavirus first upended life last spring.

(RNS) — ‘Religion is the largest demographic divider among Hispanic Americans,’ notes the Public Religion Research Institute analysis.

(RNS) — Correct doctrine is less important to the new denomination than correct action, collaborators said during Sunday’s presentation.

KITCHENER, Ontario (RNS) — The returns come as some mainline Protestant Christian denominations have learned about and repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, the justification for European Christians to seize lands already inhabited by Indigenous peoples.

CHICAGO (RNS) — Luther’s advice was the subject of a lunch-and-learn session hosted Friday on Zoom by Good Shepherd Church, a congregation in suburban Naperville affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

(RNS) — McClain was a pastor and professor who not only shaped the lives of the students he taught but also countless United Methodists with the creation of the groundbreaking hymnal ‘Songs of Zion’ and as an original member of the group that organized Black Methodists for Church Renewal.

CHICAGO (RNS) — Church members stopped by to pick up the wreaths they’d ordered for the coming Advent season — OK, so they were cardboard drink holders filled with Advent-themed beers and topped with a green ribbon and Christ candle to light on Christmas Eve.

(RNS) — Obama mentions his ‘broader skepticism toward organized religion’ but says he often turned to private prayer.

(RNS) — Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci advised weighing the risks. National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said he’s skipping the family gathering this year.