Over the past two years, a group of influential evangelical leaders broke away from their churches or denominations, mostly over their congregations’ solid support for former president Donald Trump and, more generally, conservative politics and messaging. Shimron, The Washington Post)
Read MoreThe Parliament is one of the world's largest inter-faith gatherings and comes at a time when belief is often seen as a force that divides. But its progressive organizers want to send a different message Some 10,000 participants from more than 80 countries and 200 religious traditions will convene in Chicago. (DeRose, NPR)
Read MoreUnited Methodist clergy have been through the wringer in recent years, with a worldwide pandemic, a church schism and the ongoing decline of one of the nation’s largest Protestant denominations. Those stresses have likely taken a toll on their health, a new report shows. (Smietana, Religion News Service)
Read MoreHip-hop’s birthday arrives Friday, marking a half-century since a DJ named Kool Herc played a party on Aug. 11, 1973, in the Bronx and helped create a new sound. Since then, hip-hop has become America’s most popular genre—not just in overall music listening, where it reigns over all styles, but in the way it has embedded itself in the sounds of everything else. (Shah, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreAmericans’ [have a] growing preoccupation with the specter of deadly threats. They fear burglars, gangs and child predators. They believe crime is rising, even in places where it’s dropping, which tracks with what surveys have found nationwide. (Paquette, The Washington Post)
Read MoreFrom President Joe Biden to Indian American congressmembers like Khanna, American politicians are under increasing pressure to account for their courtship of Modi, the leader of a strategically important ally and the world’s largest democracy, while ignoring the Indian regime’s oppression of religious minorities. (Karmarkar, Religion News Service)
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