Ethics/Morality/Religion
Why Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Dedicated a Golden Statue to the President. By Isaac Chotiner / The New Yorker
Black clergy strategize, preach and urge election turnout after Voting Rights Act gutting. By Adelle M. Banks and Jack Jenkins / RNS
Rubio visits Rome aiming to repair White House ties with Pope Leo. By Anthony Faiola, Stefano Pitrelli and Adam Taylor / Wash Post
Religious historian debunks Trump Cabinet’s claim US ‘was founded as a Christian nation.’ By Alex Henderson / AlterNet
Rev. Stephen Green On Faith, Justice, And The Liberating Gospel Of Jesus. By Anoa Changa-Peck / Newsone
America’s founding promise of religious freedom has long coexisted with prejudice, even as many Christians have worked to confront it. By David Mislin / The Conversation
Pope Leo has stirred awake a progressive Christianity. It can rise again. By Bill McKibben / The Guardian
Black Hope Faces a Crisis. By Thomas Anderson / Christianity Today
Church leaders break silence: Trump represents threat to faith. By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II / MSN
Orbán’s defeat is a defeat for Christian nationalism. By Mark Silk / RNS
On war, peace, the president and the pope. By George Weigel / Wash Post
When Faith Is Willfully Blind Loyalty: An Openly Demonic Presidency and a Crisis. By Fisher Jack / EurWeb
Pete Hegseth’s Gospel of Carnage. By Frank Bruni / NYT
Black Immigrants Are Diversifying the American Church. By Jessica Janvier / Christianity Today
The Black Madonna and the church’s imagination. By Allison Bobzien / The Christian Century
Faith leaders denounce Trump s civilization will die threat. By Fiona Murphy, Aleja Hertzier-McCain and Ulaa Kuziez / The Christian Century
Far-Right Religious Leaders Advising Trump See Iran as an End Times Holy War. By Alain Stephens / The Intercept
One of the Bible’s Greatest Moral Revolutions. By Shai Held / NYT
Invoking faith in wartime, Pete Hegseth breaks norms and worries critics. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
Christians Against Empathy Aren’t Who They Think They Are. By David French / NYT
Survey: Support for Trump’s immigration agenda craters with all faith groups, especially mainline Protestants. By Jack Jenkins / RNS
Iranian Duke scholar: War will increase religious fundamentalism around the world. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
Reembracing Black Spirituality; MAGA White Church Betrayal. By Julie Nichols / Patheos
The US-Israel war on Iran is shaped by religion as much as strategy. By Riaz Khokhar / Aljazeera
Air Force Academy Prepares Ideological Overhaul, With Erika Kirk Bringing “Bold Christian Faith.” By Austin Campbell / The Intercept
Religious leaders condemn Michigan synagogue attack – but moving forward together tricky. By Tom Perkens / The Guardian
Republican says ‘Muslims don’t belong in American society,’ draws fierce Democratic backlash. By Alex Nitzberg / Fox News
Amid cruelty and oppression, can the church be faithful at human scale? By C. Andrew Doyle / Christian Century
Johnson: US Must Wage War With Iran Because of Its “Misguided Religion.” By Sharon Zhang / Truthout
James Talarico is living up to the hype — by staying true to his faith. By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons / MS Now
