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New museum remembers Scotland’s dark era of witch hysteria
By Sukhada Tatke — July 10, 2023
EDINBURGH, Scotland (RNS) — Just off of Royal Mile in Old Town Edinburgh, in a 17th-century stone building on Chalmers Close, is a new museum that, though dedicated to a part of history most Scots might like to forget, raises questions making headlines in the country today.
It’s a Christian mandate to create a society where all flourish — SCOTUS keeps undermining it
By Sally Vonner — July 10, 2023
(RNS) — Affirmative action may not have been perfect, but that does not mean that we abolish it, rather we stay committed to do better.
Many African American SBC churches have women pastors on staff. Will they be expelled next?
By Bob Smietana — July 10, 2023
(RNS) — A letter from the president of the SBC's National African American Fellowship expressed concerns over recent SBC decisions to bar churches with women pastors.
LGBTQ+ Americans are more religious than our Supreme Court battles let on
By Kelsy Burke, Andrew Flores, Suzanna Krivulskaya, and Tyler Lefevor — July 7, 2023
(RNS) — Religion and queerness make strange bedfellows, but they are not as hostile as we may think.
Big churches sound alike. Little churches are the ‘Wild West’ of music, study finds.
By Bob Smietana — July 7, 2023
(RNS) — Worship professor Will Bishop said that focusing on the most popular worship songs can miss what churches are actually singing.
Josh Hawley tweets fake quote about US founding, sparking allegations of Christian nationalism
By Jack Jenkins — July 6, 2023
(RNS) — The quote, which was falsely attributed to Patrick Henry, originated in a 1956 edition of a magazine known for espousing antisemitic and white nationalist beliefs.
SCOTUS corrects an old mistake on religious rights
By Mark Silk — July 5, 2023
(RNS) — Liberal justices of the past would applaud a 9-0 decision in favor of religious pluralism.
Neland Avenue wasn’t kicked out. Now the church has to decide if it wants to stay.
By Yonat Shimron — July 5, 2023
(RNS) — The Christian Reformed Church didn't show any sign it would relent from its new doctrinal stand that homosexual sex is a sin. That puts the Neland Avenue Church in a tight spot.
Brytni McNeil brings anti-racism to Christian homeschooling
By Kathryn Post — July 5, 2023
(RNS) — She is part of a broader movement of Black home educators, many of them Christian mothers, who want their kids to wrestle with truth on their terms.
UCC elects first woman — and first woman of African descent — to lead denomination
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 3, 2023
(RNS) — That Thompson is the first woman to lead the denomination may be surprising given the denomination’s progressive stances on women’s rights and many other issues.
Judge awards Black church $1 million after BLM banner burned by Proud Boys during protest
By Associated Press — July 2, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — The extremist group and its leaders were also barred from coming near the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Supreme Court’s colorblindness
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes — June 30, 2023
(RNS) — It's a different colorblindness than the one envisioned in King's 'Dream' speech.
Police charge 23-year-old with hate crime at historically Black Maryland church
By Adelle M. Banks — June 30, 2023
(RNS) — The police department also announced other arrests in a string of 'recent hate crimes involving vandalism to places of worship.'
Whitworth University’s new hiring policy will allow LGBTQ faculty
By Yonat Shimron — June 30, 2023
(RNS) —The school in Spokane, Washington, joins a sliver of Christian colleges and universities that have bucked a largely sturdy resistance to hiring married gay faculty.
At 79, famed SBC missionary surgeon Rebekah Naylor is about to retire. Again. But she’s not done yet
By Bob Smietana — June 30, 2023
(RNS) — In India, Naylor went from staff doctor to medical director to hospital CEO, treating thousands of patients and delivering a host of babies.
