US Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigns, ending tenure marred by fights with faith groups
RNS Methodists asked Jeff Sessions to repent. He resigned instead. Sessions stepped down on Wednesday as US Attorney General, ending a tenure marked by near-constant pushback from faith communities across the religious spectrum who opposed his policies and his attempts to defend them with Scripture. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions addresses reporters during a news […]
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions speech interrupted by Methodist, Baptist clergy
RNS Attorney General Jeff Sessions was only moments into a speech on religious liberty Monday before he was interrupted by two ministers who called on him to “repent” for his role in enforcing Trump administration policy. Sessions was speaking about “The Future of Religious Liberty” at a meeting in Boston hosted by the Boston Lawyers […]
US Attorney General cleared in church complaint, perplexing some top Methodists
RNS United Methodist Church officials in Alabama have dismissed a complaint signed by more than 600 church members in July that chided Attorney General Jeff Sessions for implementing the family separation policy along the border and attempting to justify it with Scripture. But the logic of the decision, which cited a distinction between personal behavior […]
Seeing threat to religious freedom, US Attorney General announces special task force
RNS US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced during a Department of Justice summit in Washington that he is creating a religious liberty taskforce to challenge what he called a dangerous movement “eroding our great tradition of religious freedom”. Sessions said Monday the task force is an outgrowth of US President Donald Trump’s executive order directing […]
ESSAY: USING CHURCH DISCIPLINE ON ERRANT POLITICIANS SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT
US commentator on politics and religion, JACOB LUPFER, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says a decision by members of the United Methodist Church in the US to sanction member, Attoney General Jeff Sessions, risks “weaponising church discipline for all manner of political fights”…
IMMIGRATION: MORE THAN 600 UNITED METHODISTS FILE FORMAL CHURCH COMPLAINT AGAINST US ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS
JACK JENKINS and EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, look at a move by hundreds of UMC clergy and laypeople to rebuke US Attorney General Jeff Sessions amid an ongoing controversy over the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy…
SIGHT-SEEING: WHY DID US ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS QUOTE ROMANS 13 AND WHY IS IT SO OFTEN INVOKED?
In the wake of US Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ comments last week quoting a passage in Romans 13 concerned with obeying the laws of the government, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, take a closer look at the passage and its use…