Search Results for: Melissa Rogers

Biden needs to restore Obama rule for faith-based organizations

By Mark Silk — February 22, 2021

(RNS) — Given what’s at stake for families, faith-based regulations about social service organizations should not take years to put in place.

Biden should reestablish the faith-based office

By Chuck Currie — December 16, 2020

(RNS) — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have the opportunity to reengage with America’s diverse faith community.

The campaign is over. Will a Biden-Harris administration deliver on its interfaith promises?

By Eboo Patel — November 13, 2020

(Interfaith America) — Leveraging the religious and ethical values of millions of Americans – both to build religious pluralism, and to solve social problems – could be a lasting legacy of their administration.

RNS Updated Budget—Monday, August 10, 2020

By Religion News Service — August 10, 2020

NEWS STORY RNS-Young-Life: LGBT staffers dismissed by Christian organization Young Life push to overturn ‘sexual conduct’ policies (RNS) — As #DoBetterYoungLife, a grassroots community advocating for queer inclusion, demands that Young Life repeal its sexual conduct policy, the 80-year-old Christian youth organization is navigating a delicate passage between its young members’ attitudes and its donors’ […]

Trump couldn’t be more wrong about Biden’s faith

By Melissa Rogers — August 10, 2020

(RNS) — Biden speaks readily and movingly about his personal faith, including the duty to love one’s neighbor. But even more importantly, he lives out his faith on a daily basis.

RNS Opening Budget — Monday, August 10, 2020

By Religion News Service — August 10, 2020

NEWS STORY RNS-Young-Life: LGBT staffers dismissed by Christian organization Young Life push to overturn ‘sexual conduct’ policies (RNS) — As #DoBetterYoungLife, a grassroots community advocating for queer inclusion, demands that Young Life repeal its sexual conduct policy, the 80-year-old Christian youth organization is navigating a delicate passage between its young members’ attitudes and its donors’ […]

RNS Updated Budget — Friday, January 24, 2020

By Religion News Service — January 24, 2020

NEWS STORY RNS-March-Life: Trump addresses March for Life, where religion and politics mix WASHINGTON (RNS) — President Trump delivered a speech before a sprawling crowd gathered on the National Mall for this year’s anti-abortion March for Life demonstration, making him the first president ever to offer an in-person address to the conservative-leaning gathering where religion […]

Little Sisters of the Poor return to court to fight birth control mandate

By Thomas Reese — January 23, 2020

(RNS) — In a rerun of a 2016 case, the Supreme Court shouldn’t be required to settle what the parties ought to have settled themselves.

Trump pledges to prevent ‘unacceptable’ repression of school prayer

By Adelle M. Banks — January 16, 2020

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said her department’s new guidelines require state agencies to inform it when complaints are filed about limitations to the free exercise of religion.

Trump is no religious freedom champion

By Melissa Rogers — January 3, 2020

(RNS) — No advocate of religious liberty should hail President Trump as a champion on these issues.

RNS Updated Budget — Friday, January 3, 2020

By Religion News Service — January 3, 2020

NEWS STORY RNS-Jewish-Pride: #JewishandProud campaign asks Jews to stand tall in the face of anti-Semitism (RNS) — What’s the best way to respond to a rash of violent attacks on Orthodox Jewish communities in New York and New Jersey? One new campaign could be titled “the best defense is a good offense.” The campaign, which […]

RNS Updated Budget — Tuesday, December 3, 2019

By Religion News Service — December 3, 2019

NEWS STORY RNS-ROGERS-PROFILE: Melissa Rogers envisions a better way forward for faith in the public square CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (RNS) – Prompted by what she sees as a new push toward rewriting church-state laws and historic hostility to religious minorities, Rogers’ new book seeks to define the relationship between the government and religion. By Aysha Khan. […]

Paula White to head Trump’s faith office

By Jack Jenkins — November 1, 2019

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Paula White, a Pentecostal preacher and longtime adviser to President Trump, has been tapped to head the White House’s Faith and Opportunity Initiative, a successor to previous administrations’ faith-based office that coordinates outreach to faith communities.

Cultivate common ground regarding faith in public life

By Melissa Rogers — October 15, 2019

(RNS) — Making lasting progress on the most difficult issues facing our country will require renewed efforts to bring diverse Americans of good faith together to listen to one another.

Christian leaders condemn Christian nationalism in new letter

By Jack Jenkins — August 2, 2019

(RNS) — A group of Christian leaders has condemned Christian nationalism in a new letter entitled ‘Christians Against Christian Nationalism’ that calls on religious Americans to push back against fusions of religion and government they say are distortions of their faith.

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