Jeremy Fuzy

(RNS) — Like many of their neighbors, leaders of the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center watched in horror this week as wildfires destroyed homes, businesses, and entire neighborhoods in Southern California, with the destruction playing out on social media and television news.

A growing list including the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, and dozens of Holocaust scholars have concluded that Israel is committing genocide.

AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY TODAY: Establishment, Decline, and Revival. By Dyron Daughrity. Abilene, TX: Abilene Christian University Press, 2024. 304 pages.

As Donald Trump prepared to take the presidential oath of office nearly eight years ago, he sat in a Washington, D.C., church. But while the special service for the occasion occurred in a progressive Episcopal church, Trump didn’t hear a message about God’s love for all people or the importance of loving one’s neighbors. Instead, he heard a sermon declaring God had put him in power to build the wall.

The bill, which advocates said President-elect Donald Trump is willing to sign after he is inaugurated next week, now moves to the Republican-controlled Senate.

Ravi Ragbir has accompanied thousands of immigrants in New York City at their check-ins with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency known as ICE that oversees undocumented immigration.

‘I will defend equality for all, diversity, equality, inclusion, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, immigration rights,’ a crowd recited at a rally.

In “The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward,” Black Christian historian Malcolm Foley explores racial capitalism.

'It really has to be an all-hands-on-deck community engagement to rebuild and restore and return,' said one Los Angeles pastor.

This issue of A Public Witness explores Bishop Mariann Budde’s viral call for Trump to show mercy, the attacks on her and the Episcopal Church that followed, and the Washington National Cathedral’s history of advancing Christian Nationalism.