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Answers to scriptural conundrums greeted attendees of the Black Church Leadership and Family Conference (BCLFC) July 18-22 at Ridgecrest Conference Center in Ridgecrest, N.C.

Though masking was enforced, the pandemic had lifted just enough this year for organizers to go ahead with the 2022 in-person meeting, celebrating the society’s 100th year of existence. 

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday (July 21) to protect contraceptive rights that opponents say will actually violate religious freedom and promote abortion.

This week the Interfaith Alliance announced that the Rev. Paul Raushenbush, an interfaith leader, journalist and American Baptist minister, would become its new president and CEO, replacing Rabbi Jack Moline.

“My focus is to help pastors start and finish well,” Mark Dance said. “We want them to get healthy and stay healthy. Our work is to build upon the definition of health that GuideStone has established throughout its history.”

Thousands of Indigenous people converged Monday on the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis to hear a long-awaited apology from Pope Francis for generations of abuse and cultural suppression.

Actor, director and screenwriter Ethan Hawke suggested in a recent interview on Stephen Colbert's The Late Show that Pope Francis should follow the example of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, to help put an end to the war in Ukraine. 

Gospel singer Kim Burrell shocked some listeners last week by talking about “broke” and “ugly” people in front of a church in North Carolina. After her remarks went viral, the musician posted a written apology on Twitter, which seemed to add to the offense.