Donald Trump
Literary agents ISO Muslim authors
By Lauren Markoe — February 7, 2017
(RNS) 'Literary agents are in a unique position to help contribute to bringing more empathy, compassion, understanding and tolerance into this world through books,' the agents explain.
Trump’s order violates Establishment Clause, say 18 states
By Mark Silk — February 7, 2017
And they make an excellent point.
The ’Splainer: What is the Free Speech Fairness Act?
By Kimberly Winston — February 6, 2017
(RNS) Legislation introduced in Congress aims to 'restore' religious liberty in the pulpit. Will it? Let us 'Splain ...
Chaplain Black gave us a new piece of our oral history
By Jerry Pattengale — February 5, 2017
(RNS) With his Darius Rucker voice, Martin Luther King Jr. prose, G.K. Chesterton depth and Billy Graham anointing, the Senate chaplain provoked our minds and prodded our emotions.
Trump’s prayer for Schwarzenegger
By Alfred P. Doblin — February 4, 2017
(USA Today) President Trump, while speaking at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday, asked America to pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger and his sagging ratings since taking over The Celebrity Apprentice. It was a joke. A bad joke.
Trump border wall challenges America’s moral values: Catholic theologian
By Josephine McKenna — February 3, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The president’s proposed wall with Mexico would hurt the poor the most. says a leading Catholic theologian.
Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam, sources say
By Julia Edwards Ainsley — February 3, 2017
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) The revamped program, designed to counter all violent ideologies, would no longer target groups such as white supremacists.
What we can learn from the refuseniks of the Soviet Union
By Marc Zvi Brettler — February 3, 2017
(RNS) The Jews I visited yearned so desperately for American political values — upholding the human dignity and fundamental freedoms that indeed made America great. And now I see our country turning away from those fundamental values.
Trump’s Prayer Breakfast two-step
By Mark Silk — February 2, 2017
(RNS) He pretended that his order barring immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries was all about protecting tolerance in America.
The ‘Splainer: Does Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ flout the law?
By Lauren Markoe — February 2, 2017
(RNS) Plaintiffs argue that the president's executive order amounts to religious discrimination. But whether they'll be able to convince the courts is an open question.
In a new video, Pope Francis urges compassion for refugees, people on the margins
By Josephine McKenna — February 2, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) “Don’t abandon them,” the pope says in the video, released Thursday (Feb. 2), which does not directly reference President Trump's immigration ban.
Trump vows to let churches engage in politics
By Jerome Socolovsky — February 2, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) The promise, a mainstay of his campaign, was made in remarks upholding religious liberty as an American value.
Evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr. to head Trump education task force
By Ian Simpson — February 2, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) The president of Liberty University is keen to cut university regulations, including rules on dealing with campus sexual assault, the school says.
Trump’s move to protect LGBT workers unsettles religious conservatives
By David Gibson — February 1, 2017
(RNS) The president’s decision to continue Obama’s policy was lost amid anger over the travel ban and the ecstasy over his Supreme Court pick. But Trump’s move began to draw delayed responses from social conservatives.
‘Evangelicals are ecstatic’: Reactions to Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 1, 2017
(RNS) Leading up to the presidential election, evangelical Christians had made clear they believed the most important factor in choosing a president was the type of Supreme Court justices he or she would appoint.
