Essay: When Carter ran for president, advisers worried Christian faith would be a liability

DANIEL K WILLIAMS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says Carter’s encounters with social justice-minded Georgia Christians convinced him that following Jesus led to interracial alliances and poverty relief, not conservative evangelical politics…
Building homes: Why Habitat for Humanity’s “theology of the hammer” offers hope in polarised times

For nearly five decades, Habitat for Humanity has inspired people from different backgrounds — who often can’t agree on anything — to work together for their neighbours’ benefit. BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…