Al Mohler reverses course, rejects blasphemy laws after controversy
Religion News Service: The longtime president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said he erred in saying the government should be able to punish those who don’t believe God was part of America’s founding.
Why a lawyer who launched the Christian legal movement believes it’s gone astray*
The Washington Post: John Whitehead says the Christian legal movement is not what he envisioned when he launched the Rutherford Institute in 1982.
A battle for the soul of Chatham County*
The Assembly: The county rejected a rezoning request for Summit Church’s planned campus outside Chapel Hill. It’s now a federal case, with religious-freedom groups and the U.S. Department of Justice weighing in.
Fresh evidence of C of E’s role in enslavement uncovered as church wrestles with reparations debate
The Guardian: The Register of British Slave Traders shows that clergymen financed a company that trafficked enslaved Africans on hundreds of voyages.
In Germany, right-wing ‘Christfluencers’ hope to follow the US religious right
Religion News Service: Radicalized by COVID-19 and anger over immigration, right-wing pastors like Tobias Riemenschneider in Germany hope to gain followers by promoting conservative Christian views and politics. They have looked to religious right leaders and conservative influencers in the US for inspiration.
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