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Faith groups mobilize to protect voters as partisanship deepens
By Adelle M. Banks — October 27, 2022
(RNS) — ‘We're not telling people how to vote, but we're telling people (that) just to sit down in your home and not partake in our civic responsibility will only hurt us,’ a rabbi said.
Faith, medical leaders collaborate to get COVID-19 vaccine in arms of more people
By Yonat Shimron and Adelle M. Banks — February 18, 2021
(RNS) — ‘A really wonderful facet of this work is the multifaith cooperation that we’re seeing already,’ said White House official Melissa Rogers.
Reconciliation needs truth
By Jim Wallis — January 29, 2021
(RNS) — Evangelical leaders wonder how many of their constituents rampaged at the Capitol or sympathized with those who did.
Adam Taylor succeeds Jim Wallis as Sojourners president
By Bob Smietana — November 19, 2020
(RNS) — Founder Jim Wallis will step away as the organization's president and take a new role at Georgetown University.
Poll chaplains plan to bring a ‘prayerful presence’ to precincts this Election Day
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 27, 2020
(RNS) — The New Georgia Project is one of several groups training clergy to be precinct chaplains this Election Day at polling places across the country.
Black clergy call for 40 days of prayer, fasting and ‘spiritual warfare’ before election
By Jim Wallis and Barbara Williams-Skinner — September 29, 2020
(RNS) — It's time for white Christians to respond to Black Christians to deepen our response to the fundamental moral and biblical crisis of this election.
Jim Wallis replaced as Sojourners editor after controversy over article on Catholic racism
By Aysha Khan — August 14, 2020
(RNS) — Wallis said the decision to remove an essay criticizing white supremacists within the Catholic Church was wrong.
‘Racialized policing’ program takes faith leaders from grief to action
By Adelle M. Banks — June 22, 2020
(RNS) — As the White House and Congress debate nationwide actions, participants say they have come away from their studies with determination to push for change in their communities.
Unequal suffering: Here’s how Congress should help
By Jim Wallis — May 1, 2020
(RNS) — While each of us has borne a variety of new burdens and dangers during this pandemic, those burdens are by no means distributed equally.
An Easter sermon in a coronavirus pandemic
By Jim Wallis — April 12, 2020
(RNS) — The coronavirus has exposed and laid bare social injustice, which undermines both our common good and our common health. Easter tells us that all these things can be set right and made new.
Melissa Rogers, Christianity Today’s Ted Olsen hope for common ground in divided US
By Adelle M. Banks — January 24, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Author Melissa Rogers said ‘being opponents on one issue does not make us enemies; it makes us potential collaborators on something else.’
How we can use the current crisis in politics and Christianity to reclaim Jesus
By Jim Wallis — September 30, 2019
(RNS) — Reclaiming Jesus is not about making more Christians as much as it is about making Christians more genuinely and redemptively human.
Faith groups celebrate holiday season by descending on the border
By Jack Jenkins — December 21, 2018
(RNS) — Religious Americans are descending on the U.S. border with Mexico, some to learn about the issues and others to express solidarity with immigrants.
Faith groups mount election turnout efforts that could help both parties
By Jack Jenkins — November 5, 2018
(RNS) — This year’s heated midterm contests appear to have sparked unusually robust efforts by faith-based organizations to galvanize supporters and move the political needle.
‘Trumpet call from the podium’: Black faith leaders vow to resist
By Adelle M. Banks — February 24, 2017
RICHMOND, Va. (RNS) A month after the inauguration of President Trump, African-American faith leaders are now strategizing about next steps.
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