Baptist News Global
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‘You could be next on the chopping block,’ LGBTQ advocates warn faith leaders
October 19, 2023 by: Jeff Brumley | Outlet: Baptist News Global Click here to read …
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100 chaplains urge Texas schools not to take the bait on school ‘chaplains’
August 23, 2023 by: Jeff Brumley | Outlet: Baptist News Global Click here to read …
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Religious leaders must step up to support our trans siblings
I pray all those who are called to lead spiritual and religious organizations of every kind will take seriously the mandate to love and support our trans siblings so no more names need be spoken on Trans Day of Remembrance. I pray they can live life fully now — just as they are.
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BJC and Interfaith Alliance applaud first-ever national strategy to counter antisemitism
Along with a host of partner agencies working on the White House strategy, Interfaith Alliance has published a new resource guide, “Mobilizing Against Antisemitism.”
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Welton Gaddy, Baptist champion of interfaith religious freedom
After leading Americans United for Separation of Church and State as president, Gaddy became president of Interfaith Alliance, a Washington-based advocate for religious freedom and democracy for all Americans, from 1997 to 2014.
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Oklahoma’s OK for nation’s first religious charter school to be challenged in court
“Oklahoma’s decision to bluelight the nation’s first religious charter school opens the floodgates for taxpayer-funded discrimination and sullies the constitutional tenet that religion and government remain separate,” Interfaith Alliance President Paul Brandeis Raushenbush said.
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Fear drives Christian nationalists, William Barber says
“The forces that don’t want to look at history … are afraid of hearts being changed. I think there are people literally afraid of the history being taught in a way that it will call people to see what’s going on and why it needs to be changed,” Barber said in his “State of Belief”…
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33 House Republicans introduce bill to ban talking about sex and gender with children under age 10
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, president of Interfaith Alliance, blasted the Republican bill as morally offensive and dangerous.
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Sunrise vigil features prayers to commemorate January 6 anniversary
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, a Baptist minister and president of the Interfaith Alliance, urged that Jesus be remembered as the friend of the outcast, the liberator of the oppressed and as the inspiration of peacemaking. But he also requested discernment in seeing harsher realities.
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Faith groups must fight online hate, Interfaith Alliance urges
Sermons urging social media fasts or sabbaticals from screen time are woefully inadequate attempts to combating the racial and religious hatred individuals and faith groups are increasingly experiencing online, Interfaith Alliance President Paul Brandeis Raushenbush said.