President Obama turned both personal and preachy Tuesday (April 7) during his annual Easter Prayer Breakfast, which he has hosted at the White House six times since he was elected.
Source: Religion News Service | Adelle Banks| April 7, 2015
Source: Catholic News Service | Patricia Zapor| April 7, 2015
President Barack Obama observed that the celebration of Easter puts other concerns into context.
Source: Examiner.com | D. Andrew Kille| April 4, 2015
On Thursday, April 9, there will be an unusual opportunity for members of the community to learn about the Parliament of the World's Religions.
Source: The Fiji Times Online | Father Kevin J Barr| April 3, 2015
The stark reality is that Jesus was killed because of what he said and did.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis| April 2, 2015
Despite religious differences, whether discrimination against gay and lesbian people in the public square is legitimate should be answered with a resounding "no."
Source: Christian Today | Mark Yapching| April 1, 2015
A critic of prominent preacher Franklin Graham denied that she and other co-authors of an open letter had advocated public disobedience against the police.
Source: Christian Today | Mark Woods| April 1, 2015
Nearly 400 Church leaders and theologians have released a statement calling for the end of the death penalty, timed to coincide with Holy Week.
Source: Religion News Service | Heather Adams| March 31, 2015
More than 400 Catholic and evangelical leaders are using Jesus’ state-sanctioned execution to call for an end to the death penalty.
Source: The Berkshire Eagle | H. Richard Noble| March 30, 2015
Muslims worship the same God as Christians and Jews. While complete theological agreement is not possible, Christians and Jews and Muslims can come to a better mutual understanding.
Source: Christian Post | Lisa Sharon Harper| March 27, 2015
We recognize that there are times when disobedience and resistance to unjust authority is right, just, and biblical.
Source: Church Times | Madeleine Davies| March 27, 2015
THE "crude, insensitive, and paternalistic" comments made by Franklin Graham about police shootings, have been condemned by Evangelical leaders.
Source: Charlotte Observer | Kay McSpadden| March 27, 2015
The Belhar Confession calls on people of faith to stop demonizing the poor and to stand with them in unity instead.
Source: Harvard Divinity Bulletin | Eboo Patel| March 24, 2015
In a highly religiously diverse and devout society, positive relationships among people who orient around religion differently are absolutely necessary.
Source: Leadership Journal (blog) | Paul Wilkinson| March 24, 2015
The Divide Over Franklin Graham's Facebook Comment
Source: Think Christian | Jim Wallis| March 24, 2015
Our Christian faith compels us to struggle for a more humane immigration system as a moral imperative.
Source: The Washington Post blog | Greg Sargent| March 24, 2015
One basic fact about immigration reform that continues to get lost in the noise is that evangelical Christians support it.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Blog | Lilly Fowler| March 23, 2015
Graham's Facebook comment has created a division within the evangelical Christian community.
Source: The Blaze | Billy Hallowell| March 23, 2015
Some faith leaders are pushing back against famed evangelist Franklin Graham after he wrote a Facebook post addressed to “blacks, whites, Latinos, and everybody else,”
Source: 94.7 KRKS Denver | Carrie Dedrick| March 23, 2015
Franklin Graham is facing criticism after he wrote a Facebook that went viral in which he told “blacks, whites, Latinos, and everybody else” that “most police shootings can be avoided” with “respect for authority.”
Source: Global Dispatch | Kaye Wonderhouse| March 21, 2015
A group of church leaders, led by Jim Wallis, Lisa Sharon Harper, have written an open letter to Franklin Graham, criticizing his Facebook comments last week about the killing of young black men by police as Graham called for respecting authority.