Expert in faith-based disaster management new leader of US Homeland Security centre
RNS An expert in public-private collaborations and disaster management has been named the new director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Marcus T Coleman, 35, held the role as an interim from 2017 to 2018 and was a special assistant for it from 2013 to 2016. He was appointed […]
US Christian leaders urge clemency for Oklahoma death row inmate, cite mounting evidence
RNS Faith leaders are ramping up their support for an Oklahoma death row inmate as his clemency hearing nears. Julius Jones, 40, was sentenced to death in 2002, but his advocates say a different person committed the crime in which a prominent Edmond, Oklahoma, businessman was killed during a carjacking. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole […]
THE INTERVIEW: NEARING 60, BISHOP TD JAKES STRIVES TO BRIDGE RACIAL, POLITICAL DIVIDES
Writing from the US, ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks to Dallas-based Bishop TD Jakes about politics and the pulpit, bridging racial divides and his next project…