Donald Trump
Religious leaders urge Congress to protect foreign aid
By Adelle M. Banks — March 16, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Trump’s 2018 budget calls for $25.6 billion in funding for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, a 28 percent decrease from the 2017 budget.
Trump vows to appeal travel ban ruling to Supreme Court
By Reuters — March 15, 2017
(Reuters) The new ban had been set to go into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday.
167 House members ask Trump to retain ambassador to combat anti-Semitism
By Lauren Markoe — March 14, 2017
(RNS) This is no time to scrap the position, the lawmakers say.
Why evangelical opposition to Russell Moore is deluded
By Jacob Lupfer — March 14, 2017
(RNS) Anyone who thinks Russell Moore should lose his job is advancing a vile heresy and a dangerous idolatry — that Christian leaders should ardently praise the Republican Party’s chosen leader no matter how vile, obnoxious and un-Christian he is.
Russell Moore, Frank Page unite in wake of Baptist controversy over Trump
By guest — March 14, 2017
NASHVILLE (USA Today) Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore — an outspoken critic of President Trump — and another top-ranking denominational leader discussed strengthening ties across the Protestant network of churches.
The Christian social ethics project hits a wall
By David P. Gushee — March 13, 2017
What is needed in America today goes far beyond public-policy tinkering.
As Trump cites ‘honor killings’ in new travel ban, UK debates banning the phrase
By Brian Pellot — March 10, 2017
(RNS) President Trump has called for a report on the number of ‘honor killings’ by foreign nationals in the U.S. Meanwhile, a Muslim member of the U.K.'s Parliament has introduced a bill to prohibit use of the term in official publications.
Bears Ears National Monument, sacred to native tribes, faces a challenge to its status
By Lauren Markoe — March 10, 2017
(RNS) Could Donald Trump become the first president to rescind a national monument?
Faith groups: New immigration order still anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant
By Lauren Markoe — March 6, 2017
(RNS) To many religious leaders, this is simply 'Muslim ban 2.0.'
Time for the Whited Sepulchers!
By Mark Silk — March 3, 2017
To go along with the Washington Post's Pinocchios.
The key to understanding evangelicals’ upside-down support for the travel ban
By Tom Krattenmaker — March 3, 2017
(RNS) Despite their carefully cultivated image as the people who are most committed to following the Bible, when it comes down to it, white evangelicals are strongly influenced by nonbiblical factors.
Notre Dame avoids Trump controversy as Pence to receive honorary degree
By David Gibson — March 2, 2017
(RNS) The decision to invite the vice president caps months of intense debate over the wisdom of bringing Trump to campus. But it raises other potential concerns.
Trump’s missing agenda in Congress speech? Moral issues
By David Gibson — March 1, 2017
(RNS) He won praise from pundits and the public for appearing 'presidential' in his first address to Congress. But a few religious conservatives are upset that Trump ignored their concerns.
Soft-toned Trump reaches out to religious and other minorities
By Lauren Markoe — February 28, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) 'We are all made by the same God,' he said in a speech that emphasized commonalities among religious groups but is unlikely to mollify critics who accuse him of scapegoating Muslims and sending mixed messages on anti-Semitism.
