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‘Faith Vote’ 20-minute ad aims to cement liberal believers for Biden
By Jack Jenkins — October 15, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘Every moral issue is at stake in this election,’ Muslim civil rights advocate Linda Sarsour says in the ad.
Border Patrol agents raid faith-based immigrant aid camp for second time in two months
By Jack Jenkins — October 7, 2020
(RNS) — The Unitarian Universalist group successfully sued the federal government over previous raids, arguing that helping migrants equated to exercising UU members’ ‘sincerely held religious beliefs.’
New book links the decline of religious authority to the end of empathy
By Yonat Shimron — October 6, 2020
(RNS) — John Compton’s ‘The End of Empathy’ shows how the collapse of religious authority in the 1960s led Christians to evangelical megachurches that resist any efforts at social reform.
ICE apprehension on church grounds violated federal policy, say faith leaders
By Jack Jenkins — September 21, 2020
BALTIMORE (RNS) — The incident is the latest example of escalating tensions between faith-based sanctuary movement activists and the Trump administration.
Biden talks faith and poverty at Poor People’s Campaign event
By Jack Jenkins — September 15, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Former Vice President Joe Biden addressed the faith-based anti-poverty group at a virtual event on Monday evening (Sept. 14), telling its members, ‘I want to be part of your movement.’
Theologians, activists, former bishops staff urge Catholic voters to oppose Trump
By Jack Jenkins — September 9, 2020
(RNS) — The letter comes as the two presidential campaigns rapidly escalate their fight for Catholic voters ahead of the November election.
More than 350 faith leaders to back Biden for president, including many first-time endorsers
By Jack Jenkins — August 27, 2020
(RNS) — ‘I think progressive Christianity is a sleeping giant,’ said the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber.
Joe Biden’s acceptance speech caps off an unusually faith-filled Democratic National Convention
By Jack Jenkins — August 21, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘For Joe, faith isn't a prop or a political tool,’ said Sen. Chris Coons.
By embracing faith, Joe Biden and the Democrats have the potential to transform American politics
By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons — August 20, 2020
(RNS) — The past four days have emphasized the Democratic Party’s commitment to religious outreach and that has the potential to transform all of American politics.
Democrats tap array of faith leaders to speak at convention
By Elana Schor — August 16, 2020
(AP) — Bishop Mariann Budde will deliver the benediction on Tuesday, the second night of the convention, according to a list shared with The Associated Press on Sunday before its public release.
New liberal Christian groups hope to turn Trump voters to ‘Pope Francis voters’
By Jack Jenkins — August 14, 2020
(RNS) — Several new progressive Christian groups hope to woo religious voters away from Donald Trump.
Biden’s bid touts faith, courts even religious conservatives
By Elana Schor and Jack Jenkins — July 17, 2020
(RNS) — Joe Biden’s identity as ‘a very devout Catholic and person of deep faith,’ the former vice president’s deputy political director, John McCarthy, said, is ‘baked into the core messaging and core functions of the campaign.’
Poor People’s Campaign stages massive online demonstration
By Jack Jenkins — June 20, 2020
(RNS) — Originally planned as an in-person event, the liberal faith-based movement's rally drew tens of thousands to watch online.
How a rally for the right in Charlottesville emboldened a resurgent Religious Left
By Jack Jenkins — April 17, 2020
(RNS) — From a new book by RNS correspondent Jack Jenkins that chronicles a new era of progressive activism and the hard work of reforging connections and reckoning with past mistakes required to revive a movement.
Democrats lost white Christians. Can they win them back?
By Jack Jenkins — February 19, 2020
“Race matters more than religion right now,” said Ryan Burge, political science professor at Eastern Illinois University.
