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Understanding evangelicalism in America today - Religion News …
WEBAug 4, 2021 · By Terry Shoemaker. (The Conversation) — A precipitous decline in the number of Americans identifying as white evangelical was revealed in Public Religion Research Institute’s 2020 Census on ...
The top 10 changes President Russell M. Nelson has made in the …
WEBJanuary 18, 2022. By Jana Riess. (RNS) — Last week marked the four-year anniversary since Russell M. Nelson assumed leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and it’s been ...
Conservative United Methodists announce new name, logo, …
WEBMarch 1, 2021. By Emily McFarlan Miller. (RNS) — Conservative United Methodists have chosen a name for the denomination they plan to form if a proposal to split the United Methodist Church is ...
5 Faith-facts about VP-elect Kamala Harris, a Black Baptist with a ...
WEBNov 7, 2020 · But because her parents divorced when she was 7, she also grew up in Oakland and Berkeley attending predominantly Black churches. Her downstairs neighbor, Regina Shelton, often took Kamala and her ...
How Jesus became white — and why it’s time to cancel that
WEBJun 24, 2020 · CHICAGO (RNS) — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as Black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she’d always thought Jesus was ...
What is Wicca? An expert on modern witchcraft explains.
WEBAug 30, 2021 · Wicca, an alternative minority religion whose adherents, regardless of gender, call themselves witches, began in the U.K. in the 1940s. Wicca and Witchcraft are part of the larger contemporary ...
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WEBBy Bob Smietana — September 19, 2024. (RNS) — In ‘For Our Daughters,’ a new film from Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of ‘Jesus and John Wayne,’ abuse survivors argue that if pastors can ...
12 Black faith leaders who shaped America - Religion News Service
WEBJuly 2, 2020. By Carr Harkrader. (RNS) — “I sing of a new American,” Pauli Murray wrote in her poem, “Prophecy,” in 1969. As a priest, legal scholar and civil rights activist, Murray ...
Is Mormonism still growing? Five facts about Latter-day Saint …
WEBApr 7, 2022 · Here are five takeaway points about LDS growth around the world in 2021. 1. The church as a whole is still growing, but the growth rate continues to slow down. In a time when other Christian ...