Wow!: At Boston-area church, a theology lab tackles complex topics with humility, curiosity
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on how one US church is attempting to give its church members – and other interested Christians – a broader understanding of their faith and the way Christianity is lived out in the world…
US evangelical group gets racial history tour to spark work toward racial unity
Washington DC, USRNS For missionary Doug Gentile, it was seeing the “shackles for tiny children” used during American slavery. For seminary professor Darrell Bock, it was confronting the specificity of the list of “Black codes” that restricted the lives of Black people after slavery ended – mandates in many states, for instance, that they sign […]
US evangelical group releases climate change report, urges a Biblical mandate for action
Washington DC, USRNS The National Association of Evangelicals unveiled a sweeping report on Monday on global climate change, laying out what its authors call the “Biblical basis” for environmental activism to help spur fellow evangelicals to address the planetary environmental crisis. “Creation, although groaning under the fall, is still intended to bless us. However, for […]
Presbyterian Church in America votes to leave National Association of Evangelicals
United StatesRNS Commissioners for the Presbyterian Church in America approved a motion to leave the National Association of Evangelicals on Wednesday at the PCA’s General Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama. It’s the third time in the past decade the theologically conservative Presbyterian denomination has considered a measure to leave the association, an umbrella organisation of 40 […]
Christian leaders press US lawmakers to extend child tax credit for poor families
Washington DC, USRNS A campaign backed by a broad coalition of Christian leaders will urge Congress to extend the child tax credit to low-income families, hoping to broaden access to the popular financial assistance program after lawmakers allowed an expanded version to expire last year. Beginning with an advertisement in Politico Magazine that will run […]
In the US, National Association of Evangelicals launches racial justice collaborative
RNS The US National Association of Evangelicals has hired a director of its new Racial Justice & Reconciliation Collaborative, an initiative aimed at providing resources and training for churches in its 40 member denominations. Mekdes Haddis, the new initiative’s director, was hired for the full-time role a month ago after serving in church and nonprofit […]
US evangelical Christian and Orthodox Jewish leaders offer spaces for vaccine distribution
Washington DC, USRNS Two national religious groups, one evangelical Christian, the other Orthodox Jewish, have teamed up to offer their sacred spaces for vaccine distribution, hoping to assist government officials and private companies in the effort to combat the ongoing pandemic. In a recent editorial, Walter Kim, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, and […]
Inauguration week prayer event aims to show Christian unity
Washington DC, USAP As a politically divided nation prepares to inaugurate a new president in the wake of a violent insurrection at the US Capitol, a group of Christian leaders is hoping to ease tensions through prayer during three days of ecumenical, non-partisan programming. Using the slogan and social media tag #PeaceWithJustice, the effort aims […]
US evangelical leaders seek to “take the high road”, stress agreement as election looms
RNS Weeks before Election Day, leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals have reaffirmed their call for Christian engagement in the public square, signing a statement about issues on which they agree. Dozens of leaders highlighted their reaffirmation of a 2004 NAE public policy guide called For the Health of the Nation in a full-page ad […]
US evangelicals ask Ivanka Trump to help protect migrant kids
AP More than a dozen prominent evangelicals are appealing to first daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump to help ensure the Trump administration adheres to federal anti-trafficking law in its treatment of unaccompanied migrant children. In a letter to President Donald Trump’s daughter sent Monday, the evangelical leaders laud Ivanka Trump for her recent declaration that human […]