Updated: Prison Fellowship joins campaign to reform US cocaine sentencing guidelines
Updated 11.15am (AEDT), 11th March, 2021RNS Prison Fellowship has joined forces with criminal justice and prosecutorial organisations to support bipartisan efforts to reduce disparities in sentences that punish Black Americans more harshly than white Americans. The #EndtheDisparity campaign, a partnership with organisations such as Families Against Mandatory Minimums, has recently focused on the 18-to-one ratio […]
Books: COVID-19 and ‘The End of Greed’
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, MATTHEW SMEAL, of Baptist World Aid Australia, revisits Rev Scott Higgins 2015 book, ‘The End of Greed’…
Parting company: US Bible teacher Beth Moore splitting with LifeWay, says, “I am no longer a Southern Baptist”
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, speaks with high profile US Bible teacher Beth Moore about her decision to leave the Southern Baptist Convention and Christian publisher LifeWay…
Intention can turn any lockdown walk into pilgrimage, urges British Pilgrimage Trust
RNS You may be able to point to the exact moment this week or the next when the COVID-19 pandemic upended your everyday life. Put more succinctly: when taking a daily walk became for many of us a great escape, a way to get some fresh air and movement. Some have made lockdown walks an institution: “walktail” parties in […]
Essay: Time for some good news for the poor
Sojourners founder JIM WALLIS, in an article published on Religion News Service, looks at why all of Congress should support the American Recovery Plan…