Jeremy Fuzy

In addition to the presidential contest and races for federal, state, and local offices, many voters will also weigh in on important issues on Nov. 5. These ballot measures in various states will cover topics like increasing the minimum wage, changing how elections are run, allowing betting on sports, and legalizing marijuana. But the issue most likely to drive people to the polls this year is abortion. Voters in 10 states will decide whether or not to create state constitutional protections for at least some abortions.

(RNS) — At a Presbyterian church in Virginia, members of the small church met to prepare for the outcome of the 2024 election, praying, reading Scripture, and strategizing how they will help their local community depending on who is victorious.

(RNS) — Amid outrage over racist jokes told at a Donald Trump campaign event in New York City on Sunday (Oct. 27), some Hispanic Christian leaders are raising questions about the Republican candidate’s standing with a crucial ethnic and religious demographic a week before Election Day, with a prominent Puerto Rican bishop demanding a personal apology.

Nostalgia for a ‘Christian America’ overlooks the realities of religion in the founding era — which included taxes, jail time, exile, and even public hangings for anyone who defied state-run churches.

This issue of A Public Witness hops on a cross-country bus to sightsee the pluralist resistance to Christian Nationalism — and picks up some religious hope for our divided country along the way.

On Thursday (Oct. 31), Curry, 71, completed his nine-year term as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, and it’s his casual style and his capacity to adapt and improvise that may be his signature.

Theologian Candice Marie Benbow said, ‘We live at this intersection of being Black faith people and Black people who are in Greek letter organizations who are committed to communal uplift.’

Since 2020, TPUSA chapters have appeared at over 45 Christian colleges or universities, though only 21 of those chapters appear currently active.

Today marks five months since the official release of our new book, Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism. They really do grow up fast!

Last week, Vice President Harris made her closing argument in the presidential election. Standing in the same spot in Washington, D.C., where former President Donald Trump incited the Jan. 6 insurrection, she made the case for American democracy, celebrated a joyful vision of a shared future for all Americans, and called for an end to the political chaos.