NOTE: This piece was originally published at our Substack newsletter A Public Witness. How do you respond if the world’s wealthiest man attacks your church? If you’re a Republican politician, the ...

On Sunday (Sept. 29), former President Donald Trump interrupted his social media stream of attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris and immigrants to post a Catholic prayer. Along with a picture of ...

NOTE: This piece was originally published at our newsletter A Public Witness. In the first Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the start of the strikes against Iran, Pete Hegseth, who ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — Last month, on the 12th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, a few families dressed in their Sunday best clutched manila folders and stared stone-faced at a large board. It listed the day’s ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s affiliation with the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches – commonly called the CREC – drew attention even before his confirmation hearings in January 2025. More ...

(RNS) — Doug Wilson, a self-described Christian Nationalist pastor with a talent for turning his controversial positions into literal hot takes — see his burning sofa videos and other flamethrower ...

(RNS) — Protesters were dressed in national colors, holding Bibles and signs with crosses, singing Christian hymns, and shouting battle cries as a mob violently invaded and vandalized the federal ...

(RNS) — In video recorded on Friday (Nov. 14) outside the embattled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, the Rev. Michael Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters, ...

NOTE: This piece was originally published at our Substack newsletter A Public Witness. At the end of his sermon on Sunday (Feb. 16), Rev. Howard-John Wesley had an announcement for the members of ...

THE EXVANGELICALS: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church. By Sarah McCammon. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2024. 310 pages. Much has been made in recent years about the decline ...