US lawmakers join faith leaders to voice support for ‘Build Back Better’ package
Washington DC, USRNS US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several other Democratic lawmakers joined a group of mostly liberal-leaning religious leaders on Wednesday to voice faith-rooted support for federal legislation central to President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. Pelosi, a Catholic who recently met with Pope Francis, invoked her faith while drawing attention to specific […]
Adam Taylor succeeds Jim Wallis as Sojourners president
RNS Rev Adam Taylor has been named the new president of Sojourners, the national Christian social justice advocacy organisation founded and led by Rev Jim Wallis since the 1970s. Wallis will continue working with Sojourners through to July, 2021, when he will join the faculty of Georgetown University as director of a new centre focused […]
US: NEWLY FAMOUS, BISHOP MICHAEL CURRY WALKS A FINE LINE IN POLITICAL FRAY
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports…