Essay: Religion is shaping Brazil’s presidential election – but its evangelicals aren’t the same as America’s
In an article first published on The Conversation, AMY ERICA SMITH, associate professor at Iowa State University, looks at the role evangelicals will play in the upcoming Brazilian election – and how that may differ from the relationship between evangelicals and politics in the US…
Roe v Wade overturned: For the religious right, a victory 50 years in the making
YONAT SHIMRON and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report on how a mighty coalition comprising mostly conservative Catholics, evangelical Christians and Mormons grounded its theological aims in the language of human rights and played its politics unrelentingly…
Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr, Trump evangelical adviser, has died
RNS Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr, a prominent conservative pastor and evangelical adviser to President Donald Trump, has died, according to his church. Jackson, 66, died on Monday, according to a statement posted on the website of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, where he was senior pastor. Bishop Harry Jackson of Maryland speaks at the […]
In the US, religious right laments Supreme Court ruling but sees opportunities
Washington DC, USAP The Supreme Court’s decision shielding LGBT people from employment discrimination dealt a blow to religious conservatives – and was penned by a justice they lauded after his nomination by President Donald Trump. The court ruled six to three on Monday that prohibitions against sex-based job discrimination established in the Civil Rights Act […]
ESSAY: AS US EVANGELICALS WIN WITH TRUMP, LITTLE “GOOD NEWS” IS LEFT IN THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
US religion commentator JACOB LUPFER, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on the US midterm elections…
Inspired by nuns, conservative, progressive evangelicals hop on the bus
RNS It all started with some nuns on a bus. Now, with midterm elections coming up next month, more faith-based organisations are hitting the road to energise religious voters. They include Vote Common Good, which is reaching out to progressive evangelicals, and the Family Research Council’s Values Bus, reaching out to conservative evangelicals. Attendees sign […]
US black clergy, critiquing the national divide, announce plan to forge their own path
Washington, DCRNS Representatives of two black Baptist denominations, the Progressive National Baptist Convention and the National Baptist Convention USA, declared on Tuesday that they would stand apart from white liberals and conservatives alike while seeking to address a politically divided nation. Rejecting the “politics of fear” they say has taken hold in this election season, […]
ESSAY: HOW WOULD BRETT KAVANAUGH RULE IN US SUPREME COURT RELIGION CASES?
MARK SILK, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s record on cases involving religion…