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Updated Mar 12, 2021 Forget Dr. Seuss And Cancel Culture – The Real GOP Agenda Is Rolling Back Voting From coast to coast, the party is engaged in the "second great disenfranchisement in American history," says one voting law expert. WASHINGTON — Just weeks into an era of a new Democratic White House and Congress pushing through their priorities, Republicans appear to have settled on an agenda of their own. No, not Dr. Seuss or “cancel culture” or breaking up Big Tech or any...

The ‘unfathomable’ scandal behind Netflix’s Murder Among the Mormons Car bombings, necromancy and fraud – a new true crime series sheds new light on a case that almost blew up the secretive religion Hofmann pictured after his arrest in 1985 Credit: third hour  “Welcome to Salt Lake City,” runs an old airline pilot joke. “Remember to set your watches back 10 years.”  It’s a tired gag. But it neatly captures the air of fusty eccentricity that most people – if they think abou...

Religious Groups Rally for the American Rescue Plan March 4, 2021, 9:00 am Prominent religious leaders and faith-based organizations are rallying support for the American Rescue Plan—the $1.9 trillion relief package that addresses the public health and economic crises facing the United States due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed funding will help people in need by speeding up the distribution and administration of coronavirus vaccines; providing $1,400 stimulus checks to most ...

Hazel Johnson (1935-2011) is considered by many to be the mother of environmental justice. For more than 30 years, she pressed local officials and corporations to clean up toxic waste and pollution in her southeast Chicago community of Altgeld Gardens. (Courtesy of People for Community Recovery) She was a community activist. She was an ambassador of Altgeld Gardens. She was an early mentor to Barack Obama. She was a "thorn in the side" of the Chicago waste industry. She was a ...

Origins of the Black Church: Enslavement through emancipation JavaScript in your web browser. Please Engaging views and analysis from outside contributors on the issues affecting society and faith today. CP VOICES do not necessarily reflect the views of The Christian Post. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author(s). CP Current Page: Voices | Origins of the Black Church: Enslavement through emancipation Origins of the Black Church: Enslavement through emancipation | Monday, Februa...

The Methodists began as a reform movement within the Church of England. The movement’s key leader, John Wesley, began to organize the Methodists at Oxford in the 1730s with a group of students disparagingly called the “Holy Club.” Among these intense students were Wesley’s brother Charles, and George Whitefield, soon to become the greatest evangelist of the Great Awakening in Britain and America. John Wesley struggled to find assurance of salvation until a famous church meeting in Londo...

web posted February 8, 2021 As we stumble into President Biden’s Dark Winter I want to speak to my fellow believers.  Don’t despair.  Don’t allow being out maneuvered in a partisan political process to crush your spirit.  Our God, the God of all creation, the God of Angel Armies has spoken to us and His Word shall forever be true.  Weeping may endure for an evening but joy comes in the morning.  When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up ...

Leah Fleming: This is Georgia Today. Im Leah Fleming, in for Steve Fennessy. Over the last few months, weve seen a seismic shift in Georgia as the state helped Democrats capture the White House and the U.S. Senate. A majority of those in Georgia who voted for Joe Biden were Black and the state elected its first African-American U.S. senator. According to Census data analyzed by the Pew Research Center, the states eligible voter population grew by about two million over a nearly 20-year period...

To the Editor: I am an older white woman and as such have little credibility on Black issues. But I did read Charles Blow’s piece about reverse migration with interest. One of my questions is, Why should Black people not stay in New York and use the lessons learned in Georgia to increase their influence in politics and society? I worry that if reverse migration is successful, what will happen to places like Chicago, Oakland and New York? The African-American communities in those places will b...

In January 1838, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered an address in Springfield, Ill., condemning a series of vigilante attacks that had recently taken place across the young republic. Just weeks before, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, ardent abolitionist and editor of the St. Louis Observer, was shot to death outside his warehouse in Alton, Ill., by a pro-slavery mob.   “Whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands,” Lincoln said, “a...