by News Feed Editor | May 15, 2024 | Religion
HOUSTON (AP) — The Rev. William “Bill” Lawson, a longtime pastor and civil rights leader who helped desegregate Houston and worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, has died. He was 95.Lawson’s longtime church, Wheeler Avenue...
by News Feed Editor | May 14, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — The FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office have been asked to assist in an investigation into the death of Mica Miller, a pastor’s wife whose apparent suicide in North Carolina has been the source of fierce controversy and widespread speculation among her friends...
by News Feed Editor | May 14, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — Some 1,200 Jewish university professors have signed a strongly worded statement rejecting a controversial antisemitism definition that the U.S. Senate is considering codifying in federal law.The Statement from Concerned Jewish Faculty Against Antisemitism was...
by News Feed Editor | May 14, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — When a suburban Dallas megachurch commissioned a city-mandated study required to get a new traffic light near the entrance to its parking lot, church leaders hired an engineering firm to run it.But the staff at Lakepointe Church in Rockwall, Texas, didn’t only...
by News Feed Editor | May 14, 2024 | Religion
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Advocates for victims of abuse at Missouri boarding schools on Monday urged the state’s attorney general to launch an investigation, work with local prosecutors and take other steps aimed at stemming the tide of abuse.Three Christian boarding schools...
by News Feed Editor | May 14, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — As Elizabeth Neumann watched the events of Jan. 6 unfold, the former assistant secretary for threat prevention and security policy in the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans at the Department of Homeland Security was horrified. Reared in conservative...