Dressed in a clerical collar and posing no threat, I was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by Illinois State Police while protesting outside the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Nov. 1.
Dressed in a clerical collar and posing no threat, I was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by Illinois State Police while protesting outside the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Nov. 1.
Terence Lester, wearing a black hoodie and a beanie, sat atop a tall, black curbside refrigerator in the Atlanta suburb of College Park, Georgia, on a sunny Tuesday afternoon in November in hopes of bringing attention to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP benefits.
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas announced Nov. 1 that one of its priests, a Kenyan national, has been detained by immigration officials despite working in the state legally.
At the 14th General Assembly of the World Evangelical Alliance, held in Seoul, South Korea, the last week of October, Jack Sara pondered what he called a generational and geographical shift in the global evangelical Christian landscape.
Before Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica and Haiti on Oct. 28, faith-based disaster relief groups were already making plans to respond.
Accidental deaths by gun are the No. 1 killer of children in this country, more even than car crashes, which, to me, is incredible.
It has been called many things — a protest, a movement, a civic awakening — but at its core, the “No Kings” moment in the United States has been something deeper: a moral rebellion against idolatry.
After years of decline, a growing number of Americans believe religion is on its way back, a new study from Pew Research Center suggests.
Palestinian Christians living in Israel and the West Bank may not have suffered the calamities inflicted on Gaza these past two years, but they, too, have been traumatized by the punishing war.
Spanking is just one feature of what Burt and Kramer McGinnis call the “Christian Parenting Empire,” an interconnected movement of evangelical authors and ministry leaders who’ve marketed their rigid parenting methods as God-endorsed. Citing the Bible, these leaders teach that instant obedience, corporal punishment, conformity and hierarchical family structures will guarantee faithful children.
