One of the most prominent centers of theological education in the country, Vanderbilt Divinity School has been known for its social justice advocacy. Now students, faculty, and alumni wonder what the ...

This issue of A Public Witness drives over to the opening stop of the 2026 'The Vote Is Sacred Tour' at a Missouri church ...

Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up deportations, the facility — which will hold unaccompanied minors and ...

NOTE: This piece was originally published at our newsletter A Public Witness. Pete Hegseth has a new favorite Bible verse he likes to quote in speeches — and it’s not Ezekiel 25:17. In multiple ...

Standing in the Pentagon for a monthly worship service on March 25, the man who likes to call himself the “secretary of war” prayed for God to pour out righteous wrath in the Iran conflict by helping ...

Trump administration lawyers have argued a key component of the Johnson Amendment, which bars nonprofits from taking part in ...

THE BIBLE ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS: Exploiting Scripture for Political Power. By Brian Kaylor. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2025. 136 pages. There is a debate that has been going on for ...

Slavery, often referred to as America’s original sin and its systemic carry-over into our modern era, can be found in everything from our stock exchange to our prison systems. As a student of U.S.

NOTE: This piece was originally published at our newsletter A Public Witness. The Pentagon is learning what any graduate student in religious studies could’ve told them: categorizing faith traditions ...

“What we are seeing in many ways is a war on divinity being waged by a narcissist who has some kind of God complex.” Rev. William Barber II made this declaration as he stood in front of the White ...

Earlier this month during a Veteran’s Day speech in New Hampshire, Donald Trump promised that if he was re-elected, his opponents — “communists, Marxists, fascists, and radical left thugs that live ...