President Trump signs a Bible as he greets people at Providence Baptist Church in Smiths Station, Alabama. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Need to know: Thursday, March 21, 2019
Most US Christians find Trump signing Bibles inappropriate: poll
A Morning Consult poll shows 65 percent of Christians in the U.S. found the president signing Bibles to be inappropriate.
LifeWay Christian Resources to close all stores in 2019
LifeWay Christian Resources announced Wednesday (March 20) it will close all of its brick-and-mortar stores this year.
Evangelicals and Muslims see similarities in faiths and favor closer ties, survey says
As a growing movement of evangelical Christian leaders is working to improve Christian-Muslim relations, a new study finds that more than 3 in 4 U.S. evangelicals say they never or infrequently interact with Muslims.
Jewish cemetery vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti in Massachusetts
At least 30 gravestones were desecrated with swastikas and anti-Semitic messages at the Hebrew Cemetery in Fall River, Mass., over the weekend.
Does Twitter need to become a public utility?
If Twitter really wants to be a neutral space for debate, it can't choose between Silicon Valley's progressive ideology and the religious commitments of Pope Francis, writes Charles C. Camosy.
Preserving an ancient holiday of light and life
The 60,000-strong Parsi community of India is bringing the celebration of the Zoroastrian new year into the 21st century.
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Prayer postcards spark debate over faith and privacy in Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — More than 350 churches in Nashville decided to pray for every resident of the Bible Belt city by name for 30 days. Then they sent out postcards telling people they had been prayed for. Some residents appreciated being prayed for. But others saw the prayers as an invasion of privacy.
Immigration officials accused of targeting faith leader and religious groups
(RNS) — A November 2018 clash between government agents and protestors at the U.S.-Mexican border, officials say, has prompted investigation that has caught up clergy and other faith-based activists.
Pompeo: All faiths will have ‘something to say’ on forthcoming peace plan
The U.S. secretary of state’s remarks came Monday (March 18) during a controversial phone briefing as he was leaving for a five-day trip to Beirut, Jerusalem and Kuwait City.
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More than half of U.S. Mormons approve of Trump—but not among women
It's not surprising that more than half of U.S. Mormons approve of Trump, but the age and gender divides within the faith are sharper than expected, writes Jana Riess.
White evangelical support for Trump comes from churchgoers, not EINOs
(RNS) — A common rebuttal to stats showing the loyalty of Trump's base is that these voters are EINOs (Evangelicals in Name Only). A new Pew report tells a different story.
Jess Hilarious profiled four Sikhs on a plane. Our government does so every day.
Why wouldn’t someone feel fearful when seeing a man with a turban on their airplane? Isn’t that precisely what society teaches us to think? Simran Jeet Singh asks.
