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Christena Cleveland shifts from ‘white male God’ to ‘Sacred Black Feminine’
By Adelle M. Banks — February 8, 2022
(RNS) — The author of ‘God Is a Black Woman' said she’s a theist but ‘my understanding of God is not what most people would say is orthodox Christianity.’
Trump is gone, but Muslim federal workers say reforms are still needed
By Joseph Hammond — September 17, 2021
(RNS) — Muslim Americans in Public Service has published a set of 12 recommendations to improve working conditions for Muslims in public service.
Report: US Supreme Court favors religion in emergency reviews
By Yonat Shimron — July 28, 2021
(RNS) — The analysis by Reuters found that the Court's shadow docket' in which emergency applications are decided hurriedly, provided religious applicants a win in every case.
As genocide designation becomes a political football, Uyghur activists push for action
By Joseph Hammond — March 5, 2021
(RNS) — Advocates for the Uyghurs say they expect the Biden administration to proceed on the understanding that China's actions amount to genocide.
Their hopes dashed by a Texas judge, immigrants living in churches wait for a reprieve
By Yonat Shimron and Jack Jenkins — January 29, 2021
(RNS) — Now that a Texas judge has barred part of President Biden's deportation moratorium, immigrants living in church sanctuary are searching for solutions. Thirty lawmakers want to help.
The desecration of the House
By Mark Silk — January 8, 2021
(RNS) —The sacrilege lay not in the invasion of the Capitol but in the fact that it had been incited by the president of the United States.
‘Biden Did You Know?’: Metaxas turns Christmas carol into conspiracy parody
By Bob Smietana — December 12, 2020
(RNS) — Metaxas performed his 'Biden Did You Know?' parody in front of cardboard cutouts of Donald the Caveman and the MyPillow guy.
In Trump they trust
By Mark Silk — December 11, 2020
(RNS) — The 'hold your nose and vote' theory of why white evangelicals went for Donald Trump is in shambles.
Black pastor leads his white North Carolina church toward a fuller reckoning on race
By Yonat Shimron — December 7, 2020
SALISBURY, North Carolina (RNS) — In one of the most conservative cities in North Carolina, a United Methodist pastor gingerly approaches racial issues without alienating his flock.
A cemetery is desecrated, shaking Michigan’s Jewish community on Election Day
By Yonat Shimron — November 3, 2020
(RNS) — Gayle Kirshenbaum planned to spend Election Day calling potential voters and urging them to vote. Instead she woke up to the news that the cemetery where her grandparents are buried was desecrated.
Poll: White evangelicals are religious outliers on every issue of concern to voters
By Yonat Shimron — October 19, 2020
(RNS) — Only 35% of white evangelicals said the coronavirus is of critical concern, according to PRRI’s 11th annual American Values Survey. Among this group, abortion and terrorism top the list of concerns.
POTUS has COVID. What should Jews be saying?
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 2, 2020
(RNS) — I hope he gets better soon. There. I said it.
With Ginsburg’s seat open, abortion moves to the center of the 2020 election
By Mark Silk — September 19, 2020
(RNS) — For both candidates, it's an issue that they'd prefer not to deal with.
An Idaho pastor landed in ICU with COVID-19. His church plans to reopen this week
By Bob Smietana — September 18, 2020
(RNS) — An Idaho church plans to reopen after two weeks of deep cleaning. The pastor, his wife and five other church leaders were infected with COVID-19, with the pastor ending up in the ICU.
Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo defends decision to host campaign for Kyle Rittenhouse
By Roxanne Stone — August 31, 2020
(RNS) — Meanwhile, more than 12,000 people have signed Faithful America's petition calling on the Christian crowdfunding site to take down the Rittenhouse campaign.
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