Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. This week we published a look at the religious implications of rhetoric ...

Democrats last night (Nov. 3) won control of both houses of Congress and flipped a number of statewide seats and state legislative races, including in Southern states and historically Republican ...

For months, some MAGA figures and Republican politicians have argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents should monitor polling places on Election Day. This rhetoric has persisted for ...

It’s that time of year when signs for political candidates and causes dot the lawns of houses, farms, and businesses.

That’s what Christian Nationalist activist William Wolfe declared on Elon Musk’s X platform in response to a news headline noting that the “Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter ...

In September 2014, Pope Francis sparked headlines with a surprising choice for the first European pastoral visit of his papacy: Albania. A predominately Muslim nation, it had become the first ...

According to documents filed in federal court this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents into church buildings to track activists attending events at Lutheran, Baptist, ...

I first noticed something odd after reporting on Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” reading Psalm 144 during the Pentagon worship service in January to justify the U.S.

The Republican lieutenant governor of Indiana wants to change his state’s Constitution to bar non-Christians from holding public office. A Christian Nationalist pastor who won his spot as part of the ...

Most times when the World Cup rolls around, I find myself gathering for a week with Baptists from around the world. That adds a higher level of excitement to the matches as people from the various ...

Earlier this month, the Southern Baptist Convention met in Orlando, Florida, and again voted against women in ministry. The next week, some Baptists met a couple hours north in Jacksonville for their ...

The Pentagon is learning what any graduate student in religious studies could’ve told them: categorizing faith traditions sounds like it should be simple, but it is actually quite complex. And the ...