Florida
How a campus interfaith center fell to Florida’s anti-DEI legislation
By Dennis Holtschneider — February 27, 2024
(RNS) — At the University of North Florida, a ban against polarizing students along religious lines closed a thriving resource.
Faith leaders renew push for ‘accurate’ Black history education in Florida
By Adelle M. Banks — February 23, 2024
(RNS) — Training sessions in Tallahassee and in Orlando will feature curriculum companies whose products could enhance those wishing to teach Black history in schools and churches.
Florida considers allowing volunteer chaplains in public schools
By Brendan Farrington — February 7, 2024
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The only requirements of a chaplain participating in a school program would be a background check and having their name and religious affiliation listed on the school website.
The passages that got John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ banned by a Florida county
By Karen Swallow Prior — January 5, 2024
(RNS) — Would students in the state's Orange County be tempted by the 17th century classic? One can only hope.
Florida faith leader: Black history toolkit gains interest outside the state
By Adelle M. Banks — October 13, 2023
(RNS) — What the Rev. Rhonda Thomas started as a state-focused response has attracted interest in a far wider stretch of the country than she ever imagined.
March for Our Lives, faith leaders call on Florida lawmakers to ‘cease and desist’
By Jack Jenkins — September 15, 2023
(RNS) — 'Instead of focusing on and addressing the real issues, you spend time promoting hate and division, contrary to our deepest religious values,' reads a letter from activists addressed to Florida lawmakers.
Florida’s new curriculum echoes the paternalist theology of the Lost Cause
By Elizabeth Jemison — August 28, 2023
(RNS) — The doctrine that touts slavery's 'benefits' for its victims was once used to sanctify segregation.
Vice President Harris critiques Florida’s slavery view at AME churchwomen’s meeting
By Adelle M. Banks — August 1, 2023
(RNS) — Harris said she felt ‘at home’ among the African Methodist Episcopal Church members as she recalled her own Christian upbringing in Oakland, California.
How an upstart conservative group is taking Christian nationalist politics local
By Jack Jenkins — July 12, 2023
(RNS) — Meet the group critics call ‘Moms for Liberty in suits.’
How the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is making new rules for minorities
By Thomas Reese — July 3, 2023
(RNS) — If the Constitution is what five Supreme Court justices say it is, who controls the presidency and the Senate really matters.
“And in the end, the love you take”
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 28, 2023
My final sermon -- a mix tape with Sinatra, the Monotones, Rav Kook, and Cynthia Ozick. More than four decades of striving for the holy.
Head of USCCB critiques Republican governors transporting migrants
By Jack Jenkins — June 15, 2023
ORLANDO (RNS) — 'I suppose if they're transporting them to make a statement, then that seems to me to be problematic,” said Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio.
What should the US Catholic bishops talk about at their meeting in Florida?
By Thomas Reese — June 6, 2023
(RNS) — Topics foremost in the public’s mind are not on the agenda: the war in Ukraine, the treatment of transgender people, global warming, the culture wars over public education, economic inequality, political divisions and the rise of hate groups.
We asked hard questions about Reform Judaism
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 6, 2023
(RNS) — Three hundred Reform Jews; three hundred fifty Reform Jewish opinions. It worked.
Can you see the face of a friend?
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 30, 2023
Social justice, kosher-style 101. Wrapped up in one poetic piece of Jewish law.
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