ALEXANDRIA, Va. (RNS) — The version housed at Virginia Theological Seminary is not for sale, and archive staffers plan to seek the best ways to make its contents available for the public to view.

(RNS) — Hardwick was known for his disability advocacy and dynamic preaching.

(RNS) — The Oklahoma City Thunder is the only NBA team to hold a public, ecumenical invocation before the singing of the national anthem — a longstanding tradition that continues to confound basketball fans who live outside the city.

(RNS) — What clergypersons say about such topics varies depending on their viewpoint and, sometimes, their religious affiliation, the Pew Research Center found.

(RNS) — A lawsuit filed by the pharmaceutical giant alleges that Bishop Jerry Maynard Sr. and Elder Readus C. Smith III, a national COGIC leader, worked with wholesalers to submit fraudulent drug reimbursement claims.

(RNS) — Churches from Africa to Europe to Asia are registered to participate in Baptize the World, while the Museum of the Bible is set to host a hybrid broadcast event, airing footage of baptisms held that day across the globe.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The speakers largely advanced the ideas that the U.S. has a religious — and particularly Christian — founding and that its future success depends on prayer.

(RNS) — Faith leaders will first gather at Selma’s Tabernacle Baptist Church for a prayer service before marching silently on the Edmund Pettus Bridge toward the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.

(RNS) — Scholar Lerone Martin reveals little-known pieces of history in ‘Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.’

(RNS) — When faith communities teach colorblindness, they are teaching their congregants to be silent in the face of devastating decisions like this latest Supreme Court ruling.

(RNS) — ‘One disc up or one disc lower, and this would’ve been a different testimony,’ she said on social media.

(RNS) — ‘We still have defendants who are fighting, and we have more work to do, but this is a major step forward in this litigation,’ said lawyers involved in the case.

(RNS) — Religious communities have both the reach and the responsibility to speak clearly for peace.

NEW YORK (AP) — In all, more than a half-dozen potential candidates are speaking during the four-day gathering led by Rev. Al Sharpton, aiming to make inroads among Black voters, who comprise one of Democrats’ most powerful blocs.

(RNS) — ‘If Jesus was at the border, would Christians let him in?’ Tisby asks in his new documentary. ‘All too often, it seems as if, not only would they not let him in, they would celebrate blocking him out.’

(RNS) — ‘Our nation must be careful not to allow partisan agendas to undermine institutions built on merit, sacrifice, and service,’ said the president of the historically Black National Baptist Convention U.S.A. Inc.

(RNS) — Their bridge building and organizing, they say, looks back to the Civil Rights Movement and ahead to November and beyond.

(RNS) — Both Apollo 8 and Artemis II missions included public references to religion, but astronauts aboard the Artemis’ Orion spacecraft struck a broader, more global tone.

(RNS) — ‘Just as Christ’s work on the cross was countercultural, this service is a counternarrative,’ said Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, who leads the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Episcopal Area.

(RNS) — Christian nationalists' preferred framing of American politics as 'secular left vs. Christian' is false.

(RNS) — The new survey finds support for Trump’s immigration agenda weakened even among his steadfast supporters: white evangelicals and white Catholics.

(RNS) — Accusations that a Black liberation theologian had switched his loyalty to Donald Trump sent the world of religious and theological studies into shock.

'John Perkins is probably one of the true unsung heroes in America — not in Black America, not in the church community, but in America,' said the Rev. Barbara Williams-Skinner, co-founder of the Skinner Leadership Institute.

President Trump said he was ‘bringing back religion,’ but the latest Gallup Poll shows no evidence of that.

Though often linked to Black diasporas and Indigenous culture, the practice is deeply rooted in American culture, said the Rev. William Lamar IV.

Released during or close to Black History Month, the books provide a faith-oriented look at African American history and analyses of women in ministry and changing demographics and technology.

On Feb. 1, the Smith portrait was unveiled at the chapel named for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at a vespers service attended by descendants of the Smith family.

Grants were awarded, ranging from $50,000 to $500,000, for capital projects, programming and interpretation, or project planning.

‘I don’t think Jesse Jackson saw his political life as something different from his call from God as a preacher,’ said the Rev. Valerie Bridgeman.

�� Their impact on the faith life of their cities is just one way immigrants have empowered their localities.

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