Jeff Brumley

Parents can support the emotional and physical well-being of LGBTQ children by accepting the language and concepts they use to express their emerging gender identities, according to Hannah Edwards. Edwards — executive director of Transforming Families, a Minnesota-based, peer-led support group for trans and nonbinary youth, their parents and caregivers — spoke during an April...

A new documentary about the triumph of courage over despair in the Mississippi Delta is winning critical acclaim and proving no situation is too daunting to change, said Jason Coker, president of Together for Hope and a leading character in the film.

One of the world’s leading Christian humanitarian organizations hopes its new subscription-based donation program will attract younger givers and others eager for more ownership in the charities they support.

Some nations notorious for oppressing religious freedom at home also waged campaigns of repression against ethnic and religious minorities living abroad in 2023, the U.S. Commission on International and Religious Freedom warned in its latest annual report. “These governments used intimidation, harassment and violence to target political and human rights activists, journalists and members of...

The all-encompassing nature of church life can provide predators with the ideal cover for committing sexual abuse within congregations, abuse survivor and author Christa Brown said. “Access and trust. Pastors and churches have both access to kids and enormous trust within the community and within the church,” Brown said during a recent “change-making conversations” webinar...

A majority of Americans, including most people of faith, support legalized abortion in some form and only 9% want the procedure banned outright, according to a new survey by Public Religion Research Institute. The study, “Abortion Views in All 50 States,” also uncovered a direct link between Christian nationalism and voter opposition or support for...

The first national conference of Pastors for Children was a spiritual and emotional shot in the arm for the organizers of its nine state chapters. “It is inspiring to know the fight we’re facing in North Carolina is happening nationwide and I’m not standing alone against the forces that want to destroy public education,” said...

Universal education cannot be protected without grassroots movements led by people of faith, a Florida minister said during the inaugural Pastors for Children national conference. “The pulpit and the people must see it as our duty and divine calling to condemn the privatization and commodification of public education,” said James T. Morris, senior pastor of...

The seemingly rapid rise of the MAGA movement and Christian nationalism may be shocking to some, but they in fact derive from the nation’s long-time infatuation with fascism, according to theologian Willie D. Francois III. “America has always been a little authoritarian. Maybe America has not been completely totalitarian, but America has always been a...

Immigration advocates marked the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s asylum ban by lamenting the policy’s devastating effects on migrants and by warning that even more drastic anti-immigrant actions could be on the way. “Our members have seen the immense human suffering that has resulted from this asylum ban over the past year,” said Melina Roche,...