How vacation Bible schools are changing to meet new needs

A new movement aims to remake evangelicals’ relationship to politics*
The Washington Post: Fifty years after the rise of the religious right, some evangelicals want to rebrand and create a public presence that adheres to faith, not a party or person.

Not your parents’ VBS: How vacation Bible schools are changing to meet new needs
NPR: Vacation Bible schools are adapting to changing dynamics of family life and religious participation.

Meet Gen Z’s proselytizing Presbyterian reformer
Religion News Service: Richard Ackerman, a 21-year-old Presbyterian convert and conservative activist in the church, is the contemporary televangelist Zoomers can’t stop watching.

Black Christian leaders find hope with Kamala Harris*
Christianity Today: The vice president’s faith and commitment to issues stirs enthusiasm among the traditionally Democratic voting bloc.

A battle over a farm, a mosque and the moral high ground*
The New York Times: A proposed “Muslim-friendly” community near Minneapolis was called segregationist. The backlash was called Islamophobic. Who gets to define inclusion?