Trump cabinet: Top level nominees represent an unusual slice of American religious life

JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports that Trump’s cabinet selection includes everyone from pastors to Catholic converts to one nominee who credits their spiritual rebirth to a book by a Swiss psychiatrist…
Roe v Wade overturned: For the religious right, a victory 50 years in the making

YONAT SHIMRON and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report on how a mighty coalition comprising mostly conservative Catholics, evangelical Christians and Mormons grounded its theological aims in the language of human rights and played its politics unrelentingly…
US EVANGELICALS: RETIRING NATIONAL ASSOCIATION HEAD LEITH ANDERSON – EVANGELICALS ARE NOT JUST WHITE OR POLITICAL

ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, looks at the contribution and legacy of Leith Anderson, retiring leader of the National Association of Evangelicals in the US…
One in three US Protestants think more stories of abuse by pastors yet to come – survey

RNS The past year has been filled with stories of alleged sexual misconduct and abuse by Protestant Christian pastors. Bill Hybels retired early from the influential Chicago-area megachurch he founded, Willow Creek Community Church, after being accused of sexual harassment by several women connected to the church. Andy Savage, a megachurch preacher in Memphis, Tennessee, resigned […]