Franklin Graham said a new standard mandating a “leader care plan” puts the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability into the role of trying to be ‘the moral police of the evangelical world.’ religionnews.com/2025/10/08/f...

Conservative Church of England congregations, both evangelical and Anglo-Catholic, are happy have a woman as their next archbishop of Canterbury. Their real worry is her views on same-sex marriage. religionnews.com/2025/10/06/s...

King Charles’ choice for Archbishop of Canterbury will be announced Friday. It caps nearly a year of speculation and a lot of online betting. religionnews.com/2025/10/02/w...

Jerry Seinfeld, in an appearance at Duke, says the KKK is more honest than those who shout "Free Palestine." www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

For nearly four decades, Ken Isaacs has led the disaster relief efforts for Samaritan’s Purse across the world. Now he’s written a memoir detailing his trips to the world’s hotspots. religionnews.com/2025/09/09/f...

A beautiful reflection on the life of Awdah Hathaleen by his friends Maya Rosen and Erez Bleicher jewishcurrents.org/remembering-...

After struggling for months to find partners to help them deliver aid to Gaza, the embattled Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has picked up a collaborator — Samaritan’s Purse, the international Christian disaster relief organization headed by the Rev. Franklin Graham. religionnews.com/2025/08/21/s...

The push to recognize Palestine is not meant to punish Israel, argues @joshualeifer.bsky.social, but to revive the two-state solution — a push Jewish institutions should welcome: www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

New poll by Data For Progress and @zeteo.bsky.social: Nearly half of American voters now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, compared to 39% last year.

Israeli authorities refused to release the body of Awdah Hathaleen, who was shot and killed by an Israeli settler in the West Bank town of Umm al-Khair. They finally agreed Thursday — 10 days after his killing. religionnews.com/2025/08/07/p...

When church is no longer a refuge. Great reporting by @jackjenkins.me religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

Via @yonat.bsky.social on @npr.org and @rns.org: Jewish leaders from the U.S. sign a letter urging Israel to allow more aid into Gaza —> www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

A 31-year-old Palestinian Bedouin who was shot and killed by a Jewish settler Monday was a beloved activist dedicated to nonviolent resistance. religionnews.com/2025/07/29/a...

I met Awdah last year in Umm al-Khair. This is just so deeply unacceptable, yes so expectable 😭💔 Killed in cold blood, unarmed, while on his land, all for opposing settler terror and violence. Every unjustifiable dead is heartbreaking. This one hits even harder. עד מתי. עד מתי.

In her book, 'Spellbound,' Molly Worthen posits that charismatic people tell a compelling story about human identity and purpose that others gravitate to because it helps explain their own role in the grand scheme of life. religionnews.com/2025/07/25/w...

Despite some 1,000 killings near its aid distribution sites, the Rev. Johnnie Moore described the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as "unbelievably effective" in a Zoom call: religionnews.com/2025/07/22/j...

U.S. District Judge Jamal N. Whitehead said the Trump administration must allow in more refugees who had travel booked to the US before the president froze the refugee program — including those living in countries included in the travel ban. religionnews.com/2025/07/15/j...

Seven months after his flight to the United States was abruptly canceled, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn President Trump’s freeze on the U.S. refugee program arrived at RDU. religionnews.com/2025/07/11/p...

The executive committee of North Carolina’s Democratic Party passed a strongly worded resolution calling for an end to "military aid, weapons shipments and logistical support to Israel." religionnews.com/2025/06/30/n...

To end their hunger strike, the strikers are demanding that the United States stop arming Israel and that Israel “stop starving Gaza.” religionnews.com/2025/06/27/m...

White evangelicals’ love affair with Donald Trump continued unabated in the 2024 election. But a new study examining verified voters shows the president won over the affections of most other Christians, too. religionnews.com/2025/06/26/p...

A Bay Area synagogue invited two Palestinians to visit. Their visas were revoked and they were sent home. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/a...

Religion and Public Life was one of a handful of programs singled out in Harvard’s 311-page antisemitism report as being especially problematic. Now it's been gutted. religionnews.com/2025/06/12/h...

The plight of Palestinians in Gaza is rapidly worsening. A Jewish group in the US is ringing the alarm with a rolling fast. religionnews.com/2025/06/11/a...

Walter Brueggemann's 1978 “The Prophetic Imagination” showed how the biblical prophets were called to imagine a different world: religionnews.com/2025/06/05/w...

American evangelicals, driven by a biblical vision to protect Israel, have long been integral to U.S. diplomacy in the Holy Land. And now they have another player on the team. religionnews.com/2025/06/05/j...

There's a vigil tomorrow and a Boulder Jewish Festival, planned for Sunday. But are Jews willing to gather? religionnews.com/2025/06/03/a...

The Rev. William Barber divorced his wife last year. She is now accusing him of paying her alimony from his nonprofit, Repairers of the Breach: religionnews.com/2025/05/30/w...

Should faith-based groups help resettle Afrikaners? A ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina thought about it long and hard. religionnews.com/2025/05/20/a...

As Israel’s 19-month-old military campaign in Gaza continues, some American Jews are joining commemorations of the offensive that started it all 77 years ago: the Nakba. religionnews.com/2025/05/15/a...

Three-quarters of U.S. Jewish voters (74%) disapprove of Trump’s job performance. Most American Jews think Trump is “dangerous” (72%), “racist” (69%) “fascist” (69%) and antisemitic (52%) to boot. religionnews.com/2025/05/14/p...

Ben Boswell was fired from his church two weeks after giving a sermon excoriating the election of Donald Trump. Now he starting a new church. religionnews.com/2025/05/13/f...

Brother Joe Ruiz learned a bunch of things from his mentor, Robert Prevost. Among them: how to live in community, one of the distinguishing marks of the Augustinian order. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/j...

The Episcopal Church takes a stand: religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

Fascinating overview of JVP's national conference last week in Baltimore by my colleague, @jackjenkins.me. religionnews.com/2025/05/09/a...

An old X post from the new Pope is making the rounds:

As protests surge across the country in response to Trump's testing the tenets of American democracy, these women have found in quilt making an avenue to express their outrage. religionnews.com/2025/05/01/t...

A poll last week found that most American Jews oppose the way President Donald Trump is handling antisemitism. Now a group of 550 rabbis have written a letter to that effect. religionnews.com/2025/04/28/5...

Nearly 1,500 NEH grants were canceled earlier this month, including a grant that would have created first scholarly edition of one of the great classics of biblical literature, the Psalms. religionnews.com/2025/04/25/c...

“…the reports…will no longer call governments out for such things as denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly. They won’t condemn retaining political prisoners without due process or restrictions on ‘free and fair elections.’” apple.news/Afn5usfmGRcq...

Israel is no longer perceived as David, but as Goliath, a new Pew poll suggests: religionnews.com/2025/04/09/m...

Harvard Divinity School announced last week it was pausing its Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative. On Wednesday (April 2), it let go of its sole Palestinian-American staffer: religionnews.com/2025/04/03/h...

"A World of Difference" was an ADL program to get schoolchildren to “challenge prejudice, stereotyping and all forms of discrimination.” It is no more. religionnews.com/2025/03/31/t...

Orthodox Judaism, both in the United States and Israel, has typically espoused a right-wing political orientation that includes unconditional support for Israel. But a group of modern Orthodox Jews based in NYC begs to differ. religionnews.com/2025/03/27/t...

This captures the vile, racist lawlessness and cruelty of the Trumpist regime so precisely. Hard to come up with something that is further removed from the nobler aspirations in the country’s history - and more in line with the absolute worst version of what America has been.

Yeshiva University in New York City has settled a long-running lawsuit with its LGBTQ+ club by agreeing to formally recognize the group and give it all the rights and privileges of other clubs on campus. religionnews.com/2025/03/21/y...

"These behaviors that we’re seeing from the U.S. government are policies that we see in other countries in the world, like in Putin’s Russia or Xi Jinping’s China," said Nader Hashemi, director of a Georgetown center where postdoc Badar Khan Suri was arrested. religionnews.com/2025/03/20/g...

More than 2,400 Jewish scholars say they will not voluntarily collaborate with federal immigration enforcement or the Anti-Defamation League, which supported the arrest of Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil. religionnews.com/2025/03/19/2...

Here's some news you can use, courtesy my colleague, @jackjenkins.me : religionnews.com/2025/03/18/j...