WASHINGTON (RNS) — At the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women Inc., about midway along Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, the Revs. Barbara Williams-Skinner and Jim Wallis sat in a briefing room to...
LITITZ, Pa. (RNS) — Elsy Jurez and her daughter, Penelope, paused at the Republican Party booth on their way into their polling location on Tuesday (Nov. 5). Donned in a bright pink vest, the elder Jurez smiled and joked with...
(RNS) —In the summer of 2022, when superstar reggaeton artist Bad Bunny released “Un Verano Sin Ti” (“A Summer Without You”), an album that went on to become Spotify’s most streamed album of all time, even the archbishop of San...
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (RNS) — After watching a documentary on the threat of Christian nationalism on a Tuesday evening last week, members of Word Tabernacle Church, a predominantly Black congregation about 55 miles east of Raleigh, had lots of questions....
(RNS) — In January 2024, Pew Research published a study showing 28% of U.S. adults are now religiously unaffiliated, making the “nones” (as they’re nicknamed) the largest religious cohort in the country, outnumbering Catholics and evangelical Protestants. Yet when it comes...
RANKIN, Pa. (RNS) — Beneath the lofty, rusted towers of the Carrie Blast Furnaces, a retired industrial site on the edge of Pittsburgh, Kamala Harris made her next-to-final bid to Pennsylvania voters with the help of Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey...
(RNS) — The former president of an evangelical get-out-the-vote nonprofit, which seeks to motivate Christian voters to promote family values and “biblical truth” in the public square, was charged Monday (Nov. 4) with eight counts of possessing child pornography. Jason...
(RNS) — I’ve been thinking about my grandfather a lot this election season, how I might emulate him and show up for others. Gone now for 18 years, his voice is an occasional presence in my heart and head, especially...
(RNS) — As the nation awaits the results of Election Day, some houses of worship are opening their doors for prayer and faith leaders are gathering in online prayer sessions. In the nation’s capital and far beyond it, people across...
MADISON, Wis. (RNS) — When Toni Swandby and her husband Mark decided to host Ngwa Augustine, a recent immigrant to Wisconsin from Cameroon, the couple opened not just their home to him, but their congregation at Midvale Community Lutheran Church....
