In Sunday sermon, Warnock, now US senator and pastor, said he heard ‘echoes of the spirit’ in swearings-in
RNS On the first Sunday after he became a Georgia senator, Rev Raphael Warnock described his election and the changing scene at the US Capitol – from insurrection to inauguration – as forms of divine messaging. “Can I just close this sermon by telling you that this very week, in the very place where we […]
Catholicism in the capital: With his inauguration, Biden makes his return to ‘Catholic Washington’
As the second ever Catholic President takes office in the US, JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, looks at Catholic influencers in Washington, DC…
Joe Biden’s family Bible anchors faith-infused inaugural events
RNS President-elect Joe Biden plans to be sworn in with his hefty family Bible when he becomes the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday. It’s one of many ways religion will be a facet of the inaugural activities surrounding the country’s second Catholic president. “it’s just been a family heirloom on the Biden […]
Essay: Truth over power – It is past time for the church to speak plainly about the election
In an article first published on The Conversation, ESAU MCCAULLEY, author of ‘Reading While Black’ and an assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, looks at what it means as a Christian to be “on the side of truth”…
Essay: Sedition and silence
Sojourners founder JIM WALLIS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says it’s time for political and faith leaders to speak up…
Jericho March plans DC return in the new year to pray Pence will overturn election
RNS A die-hard group of Trump supporters hopes 2021 will start with prayer, fasting and perhaps a miracle. Organisers of the Jericho March, slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, have called on “patriots, people of faith and all those who want to take back America” to travel to Washington on those days for a pair of marches to […]
White House relations: Religious right eyes Biden warily after Trump’s good favour
ELANA SCHOR, of The Associated Press, reports on how some of Trump’s key backers among conservative evangelical Christians are approaching the election of Joe Biden as the next president with scepticism, but not antagonism…
In the US, faith takes the forefront as Georgia Senate runoffs heat up
Atlanta, Georgia/Washington DC, USAP Bishop Reginald Jackson stepped to the microphone at a drive-in rally outside a church in south-west Atlanta as his voice carried over a loudspeaker and the radio to people gathered in, around and on top of cars that filled the parking lot. “Let’s keep Georgia blue,” Jackson said. “Let’s elect Jon […]
Running for office: How faith and politics in Brazil have become intertwined – and why they are likely to remain so, despite concerns from some
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA reports from São Paulo…
Five faith facts about former President Barack Obama’s new book: ‘A Promised Land’
RNS Former US President Barack Obama’s new book, A Promised Land, only mentions four pages in its index under the category “faith and”. But the title of the book by the 44th US President invokes Biblical imagery – a land promised by God to his people – and Obama includes the role of religious institutions, […]