Tag: Faith and politics

Four Episcopal Church leaders have signed a letter from Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence to every member of Congress urging them to support legislation

Deacon Diane Riley of Diocese of Newark says that the state’s food banks cannot make up for the $90 million annual cuts in SNAP benefits. The advocacy director of the Community FoodBank says that these cuts will affect 873,000 people — 10 percent of the population of New Jersy, the vast majority being children, elderly or the working poor.

Many diocesan conventions have met over the last few weeks. One issue that has come up in many is divestment from oil company stocks. The

Bishop Lawrence Provenzano of the Diocese of Long Island opposes a ballot initiative that would legalize gambling in New York. He writes:

Author of Diarmaid MacCulloch, answers the question of why Christians in the West do not seem to care about Christians in the Middle East:

While the new tone coming out of the Vatican has drawn plaudits from progressives, it has also driven a wedge into the powerful political alliance between conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians.

Both Barack Obama and Cory Booker, the new Senator from New Jersey, are African-American Christians who have been deeply influenced by Judaism but in very different ways

Gary Hall: The positions that I’ve spoken out on—race, sexuality, and gun violence—are not morally ambiguous for Christian people.