US election: How Trump’s Republican National Convention speech wove faith into the ‘great American story’
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, take a look at President Donald Trump’s speech on the last night of this week’s Republican National Convention…
Essay: On the dangers of mixing faith and partisan politics
Rev TIM COSTELLO looks at how the fear of secularism is driving support for conservative politics in the US – and elsewhere…
US politics: Biden’s bid touts faith, courts even religious conservatives
ELANA SCHOR and JACK JENKINS report for Religion News Service…
THE INTERVIEW: US PASTOR EUGENE CHO AND “THOU SHALT NOT BE A JERK”
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, speaks with Eugene Cho about his latest book, ‘Thou Shalt Not Be A Jerk: A Christian’s Guide to Engaging Politics’…
US presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren announces new campaign interfaith advisory council
RNS Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a new religion-related campaign initiative, announcing an interfaith advisory council and forthcoming endorsements from more than 100 religious leaders from across the country. “I’m proud to announce a committed group of faith leaders that will lead my campaign’s Interfaith Advisory Council,” Warren, a United Methodist and US […]
ESSAY: PAULA WHITE AND THE MAINSTREAMING OF AMERICAN PENTECOSTALISM
In an article first published on Sightings – a publication of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School, DANIEL G HUMMEL looks at the rise of Pentecostalism in the US…
ESSAY: HOW WE CAN USE THE CURRENT CRISIS IN POLITICS AND CHRISTIANITY TO RECLAIM JESUS
In an excerpt from his latest book – ‘Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus’, Sojourners’ founder Rev JIM WALLIS argues that the current crisis in the US represents an opportunity to reconnect to “the person and teachings of Jesus”…
ESSAY: WHO’S AN EVANGELICAL AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE?
US author THOMAS S KIDD, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at what defines an evangelical…
ESSAY: WHAT NETFLIX GOT WRONG – THE FELLOWSHIP’S MISSION IS LOVE, NOT POWER
In an article via Religion News Service, A LARRY ROSS, founder of A Larry Ross Communications and a volunteer with the international network of Fellowship friends, says the Netflix series ‘The Family’ fails to capture the spirit of love at the heart of the organisation known as the Fellowship…
ESSAY: WHAT IT MEANS TO ‘GET’ RELIGION IN 2020
US Catholic commentator CHARLES C CAMOSY, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks, writing for the US context, at the implications when those who control the public discourse fail to understand the importance of religious beliefs…