Inside the parish-led fight against a $123M ICE facility in Texas

Inside the parish-led fight against a $123M ICE facility in Texas
Religion News Service: The parishes that won Socorro, Texas, running water in the 1980s are now fighting ICE’s plan to convert warehouses into a mega detention center. And the town’s water system is at issue again.

 

This historic divinity school is offering the first doctoral degree in ‘AI and Moral Agency’
Religion News Service: Shaw University Divinity School hopes to be the first theological school accredited by the Association of Theological Schools to offer a doctoral degree in AI. Its first cohort begins in January.

 

Booted from evangelicalism, a progressive, ‘post-evangelical’ church blooms in Texas
Religion News Service: Led by Zach Lambert, Restore church is part of a small but growing countertrend.

 

Justice Gorsuch calls out conservatives for pushing myth of white, Christian founding
HuffPost: “It’s demonstrably not true that we came from the same religion,” Gorsuch said.

 

Religion isn’t just for the right: Five ways progressives are invoking ‘religious freedom’ laws
The Guardian: Progressive faith communities are increasingly leveraging religious freedom laws to protect civil liberties across the US.