Ron Sider
Remembering faith leaders who died in 2022: preachers, writers and interpreters of faith
By Adelle M. Banks — December 28, 2022
(RNS) — In this year we lost people who were known for their political office but for whom religion played roles expectedly and unexpectedly.
8 over 80: At 92, John Perkins still mobilizes Christian communities
By Adelle M. Banks — August 4, 2022
(RNS) — ‘Justice is an economic issue,’ Perkins said in the interview. ‘It’s the management and stewardship of God’s resources on the Earth.’
Ron Sider, evangelical activist who wrote ‘Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger,’ dies at 82
By Bob Smietana, Jack Jenkins, and Adelle M. Banks — July 28, 2022
(RNS) — Sider was known for his outspoken support of social justice and decades of activism.
It’s time to rescue the ‘pro-life’ label from anti-abortion activists
By Jonathan Merritt — November 2, 2020
(RNS) — The 'pro-life' term was once a moral call to arms, but it has become a mere political checkbox.
Evangelical writers to their fellow faithful: Donald Trump is a ‘spiritual danger’
By Jack Jenkins — June 18, 2020
(RNS) — You’ve probably heard of the white evangelicals who have backed President Donald Trump since he launched his campaign for president. Their story is well known to political analysts and average Americans alike: Around 80% to 81% of white evangelicals backed Trump on Election Day in 2016, catapulting him into power and remaining some […]
Why white evangelicals voted for Trump: Fear, power and nostalgia
By Jana Riess — July 2, 2018
(RNS) — Eighty-one percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, but why? Especially when there were three experienced evangelical candidates in the primary season? Historian John Fea traces a legacy of fear, power, and nostalgia among white evangelical voters.
Evangelicals want to follow the Global South on gays. They should be careful what they ask for (COMMENTARY)
By Jonathan Merritt — May 8, 2015
(RNS) When it comes to LGBT rights, calls for dialogue with global Christians are more about political posturing than a desire to really listen to our global brothers and sisters.
Tony Campolo to shutter the evangelical ministry he started 40 years ago
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — January 14, 2014
(RNS) “Too often, we old guys hang on too long and steal the spotlight from the new, bright, shining stars emerging as speakers and leaders,” Campolo said. “We keep occupying leadership without stepping aside and getting behind these speakers.”
Fifty years later, church leaders respond to King’s “Birmingham Jail” letter
By Adelle M. Banks — April 12, 2013
(RNS) Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. challenged white church leaders to confront racism, an ecumenical network has responded to his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Christian Churches Together in the USA has produced a 20-page document that answers King and includes confessions of church bodies about their silence and slow pace in addressing racial injustice.
Religious leaders ask HHS to broaden birth control exemption
By David Gibson — June 12, 2012
(RNS) A coalition of nearly 150 religious leaders, led by conservative Protestants, have petitioned the Obama administration to broaden the exemption that allows churches and some religious organizations to avoid the controversial policy mandating that all health care insurers provide free contraception coverage. By David Gibson.
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