How Are You Reacting to the Supreme Court’s Travel Ban Ruling?
People gather in front of the Supreme Court to protest its ruling on the travel ban. Ting Shen/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court upheld the Trump’s administration’s travel ban Tuesday morning, ruling in a 5-4 decision that the president has the authority to issue the order. About…
Trump’s Immigration Policies Unified People of Many Faiths in a Powerful Protest on Capitol Hill Today
Children in Mylar survival blanketsLenin Nolly/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The president may have signed an executive order intended to end family separation at the border, but immigrant advocates aren’t quieting down. On Thursday morning, dozens of faith leaders, children, and protesters gathered at the Russell Senate office Building to demonstrate…
The Methodists Are Thinking About Ejecting Jeff Sessions Over Family Separations
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on immigration and law enforcement actions to cadets from Lackwanna College Police Academy. Michael Candelori/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Methodists, who are known for being fairly chill in the grand scheme of organized religion, are apparently considering kicking Attorney General Jeff Sessions…
The New Southern Baptist President Wants to End Abuse in the Church While Sticking to Tradition
Mother Jones illustration; dwleindecker/Getty Images; Sean_Warren/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Southern Baptist Convention elected a new leader Tuesday in Dallas amid an unprecedented conversation about gender. J.D. Greear, the pastor at The Summit, a North Carolina-based Baptist megachurch, won 69 percent of the vote at the Baptists’ annual conference.…
School Officials Tried to Stop Her From Talking About Sexual Assault. She Wouldn’t be Silenced.
Lulabel Seitz after her microphone was shut off.Erik Castro/The Press Democrat/AP No, Lulabel Seitz would not shut up. The first in her family to graduate high school, the Petaluma, Calif., senior wouldn’t let school administrators stop her from publicly talking about sexual assault at school. “Let her speak!” her classmates shouted when her mic was cut,…
These Evangelicals Are Turning AR-15s Into Garden Hoes
Mother Jones/Nathalie Baptiste Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In America, God and guns have gone hand in hand. Prominent white evangelicals like Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of the Liberty University, the largest evangelical university in the country, has bragged about carrying a gun in his back pocket. Robert Jeffress, the pastor of…