Sight-Seeing: When working for justice can lead us away from Jesus
NILS VON KALM sounds a warning about doing works of justice while remaining “comfortably distant” from love…
In the US, lawsuit against McLean Bible, David Platt dismissed
RNS A year-long legal battle over a contested election at a prominent Washington, DC-area church appears to be over for now. On Friday, a Fairfax County, Virginia, judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by dissident members of McLean Bible Church who sought to overturn the results of an election for church leaders, known as elders. Those […]
Woke war: How social justice and CRT became heresy for US evangelicals
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that the political ‘woke war’ has spilled over into US churches in a trend that will likely continue…
Amid Black exodus from Catholic Church in US, young Catholics are pushing the church to address racism
RNS Byron Wratee recalls the silence among white Catholic priests after the killing of Trayvon Martin. Since then, he said, he’s made a conscious decision to attend only Catholic parishes that are majority Black. He’s remained critical of the church’s response to racism and racial justice in the aftermath of numerous police killings of Black […]
Top US Catholic bishop calls social justice movements “pseudo-religion”
RNS Archbishop José H Gomez, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, railed against “new social justice movements” during a speech Thursday, decrying them as “pseudo-religions” that ultimately serve as “dangerous substitutes for true religion”. Gomez, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, delivered the remarks in a video message sent to a meeting of […]
Essay: How churches can reframe social justice now and after COVID-19
In an article first published on Religion News Service, BARBARA WILLIAMS-SKINNER, president and co-founder of the Skinner Leadership Institute and co-convener of the National African American Clergy Network, says now is a chance for churches to reframe how they reframe approach helping the marginalised…
BOOKS: A DEEPER LOOK AT THE LIFE OF ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST WELL-KNOWN CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS
DAVID ADAMS reads Tim Costello’s new memoir…
SIGHT-SEEING: HOW THREE WOMEN OF FAITH CHANGED AMERICA
A JAMES RUDIN, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at the impact three women made on the US…
THE INTERVIEW: SISTER HELEN PREJEAN ON HER NEW BOOK, GETTING RID OF THE DEATH PENALTY AND GETTING JESUS “RIGHT”
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, talks to anti-death penalty compaigner Sister Helen Prejean about how she became involved in social justice, why she thinks the death penalty is on its way out and how she got to “bump into two popes along the way”…
Controversial Founders Ministries video leads to board resignations, #MeToo concerns
RNS Several board members have resigned from a neo-Calvinist evangelical group that released a trailer of a planned film linking prominent Southern Baptists with a conspiracy to promote social justice advocacy in evangelical churches. The resignations, announced 1st August by Founders Ministries President Tom Ascol, come as some Southern Baptist leaders interviewed for the film […]