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Survey: Mainline clergy are more liberal than their congregants
By Yonat Shimron — September 14, 2023
(RNS) — Mainline clergy are more supportive than their congregants of LGBTQ rights, more likely to have opposed the overturn of Roe v. Wade and less likely to believe America is in danger of losing its culture and identity.
Activists prepare for yearlong battle over Nebraska private school funding law
By Margery A. Beck — September 1, 2023
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — If the law is repealed, Nebraska would join North Dakota as the only states not offering some type of public payment for private school tuition.
Coach who lost his job for praying on field kneels again in first game after years of legal battles
By Ed Komenda — September 1, 2023
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — After fighting to be rehired for seven years, Joe Kennedy isn’t sure he wants it anymore, and the thought of kneeling in the spotlight again makes him queasy.
Pastor indicted alongside Trump returns to pulpit
By Jack Jenkins — August 29, 2023
(RNS) — The Rev. Stephen Lee, who is facing multiple charges regarding his alleged attempt to meddle in Georgia’s 2020 election results, began the service by reading from a passage that calls on believers to ‘put on the full armor of God.’
Can South Carolina’s Haley and Scott woo the GOP’s white evangelical base away from Trump?
By Tiffany Stanley — August 22, 2023
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — Both candidates of color must appeal to their party’s white evangelical base to have a prayer against former President Donald Trump.
Court watchdog files complaint against a judge who ordered ‘religious-liberty training’ for lawyers
By Associated Press — August 17, 2023
(AP) — The leader of Fix the Court says U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr's choice of training conducted by a Christian legal-advocacy group is “strange and unprecedented.”
Pastor indicted alongside Trump in Georgia election meddling case
By Jack Jenkins — August 15, 2023
(RNS) — The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor is charged with attempting to influence witnesses and conspiring to solicit false statements and writings, all as part of an effort to influence an election worker.
What Russell Moore knew
By Tyler Huckabee — August 11, 2023
(RNS) — Prophets have no honor in their own country. Moore’s known that better than anyone for a long, long time.
Are white evangelical pastors at odds with their congregants? A new study says no.
By Yonat Shimron — August 9, 2023
(RNS) — A new study shows white evangelical clergy are as conservative, if not more so, as the people in their churches.
Will Trump’s latest indictment hurt him with evangelical Christians? Probably not.
By Jack Jenkins — August 4, 2023
(RNS) — 'The majority of white evangelicals have accepted this idea that Trump wants what they want,' said Michael Wear, who runs The Center for Christianity and Public Life. 'I’m not sure this indictment changes that.'
Indicting Trump’s gospel of truth
By Mark Silk — August 2, 2023
(RNS) — It's at the crux of his latest indictment.
In new book, Russell Moore urges evangelicals to stop lying and come back to Jesus
By Bob Smietana — July 25, 2023
(RNS) — Once a rising star among Southern Baptists, Moore lost his job after criticizing Donald Trump and standing by abuse survivors.
The religious evasiveness of GOP presidential candidates
By Mark Silk — July 25, 2023
(RNS) — It’s a long-standing tradition.
Some critics see Trump’s behavior as un-Christian. His conservative Christian backers see a hero
By David Crary — July 24, 2023
(AP) — Certain achievements during Trump’s presidency – notably appointments that shifted the Supreme Court to the right – have solidified that support.
Crowded GOP field vies for the Christian Zionist vote as Israel’s rightward shift spurs protests
By Tiffany Stanley — July 20, 2023
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Christians United For Israel's annual summit has become a regular stop for Republicans wishing to showcase their pro-Israel and conservative Christian bona fides to the mostly white evangelical audience.
