by Jeremy Bell | Jan 16, 2021 | General
(RNS) — Threats to religious freedom around the world are on the rise — from the persecution of Uighur Muslims, Christians and others in China, to Ahmadis in Pakistan, to the Rohingya in Myanmar — the list goes on. America’s First...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 7, 2021 | General
(RNS) — An online pro-Trump prayer meeting was filled with defiance on Wednesday night (Jan. 6), even as evangelical and charismatic supporters of President Donald Trump admitted that chances the election will be overturned were slim. The prayer time came after a...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 6, 2021 | General
ATLANTA (AP) — Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party’s reach. A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 6, 2021 | General
By Brian Kaylor for Word & Way, Jan. 6, 2021 “Let us march on ballot boxes, march on ballot boxes until race-baiters disappear from the political arena,” Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed on Mar. 25, 1965. “Let us march on ballot boxes until we send to our...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 6, 2021 | General
By Brian Kaylor for Word & Way, Jan. 6, 2021 One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king.’ But the olive tree answered, ‘Should I give up my oil, by which both gods and humans are honored, to hold sway over...
