How July 4th and Juneteenth Can Bring America Together
Happy Independence Day Weekend! In this episode of The State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly podcast and radio program,...
Religion
California Baptists cut staff, citing decline in Cooperative Program Giving
(RNS) — The California Southern Baptist Convention, one of 41 regional groups that make up the Southern Baptist Convention, announced...
Why Kinky Friedman still matters
(RNS) — I had not thought of the name “Kinky Friedman” in decades. And yet, when I heard of his...
Teaching the Bible in Oklahoma
(RNS) — I’m guessing Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters has not been in the best of moods lately....
Synagogues and churches in Dagestan. A synagogue in LA. There is a connection.
(RNS) — On Monday (June 24), we awoke to two seemingly disparate horrors. I say “seemingly” for a reason. First:...
Christian Reformed synod tells LGBTQ-affirming churches to repent or disaffiliate
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (RNS) — At its annual national meeting this week, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, one...
What, to the white American, is the 19th of June?
(RNS) — On July 5, 1852, the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester invited Frederick Douglass to give a speech on...
In Mecca on Eid al Adha, carrying the burden of those lost in Gaza
MECCA (RNS) — This year, as millions of Muslims flock to the land where Abraham once offered his greatest sacrifice...
A trans hermit reminds us that the church once saw sex difference as a matter of degree
(RNS) — Hard on the heels of a Vatican document adamantly rejecting trans and gender fluidity and condemning gender reassignment...
Tony Evans says he is ‘stepping away’ from leading Dallas megachurch due to ‘sin’
(RNS) — Tony Evans, the longtime leader of a Dallas megachurch and bestselling author, has announced that he is stepping...
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