Bay Area pastor, shot with a pepper round, files $5M claim against federal government

Which Bible passages are in Texas’ proposed student reading list? Here’s what the sections reveal.

(RNS) — The chosen readings, to be voted on by the State Board of Education, draw heavily from Christian perspectives.

A judge orders ICE to free a Wisconsin mosque leader, citing a 'substantial' free speech claim

(AP) — The government has claimed he is a foreign policy threat, but Sarsour's attorneys say he was actually targeted for speaking out against Israel.

Is this the civil rights moment of our day? 

(RNS) — The hard-won gains of the civil rights era are steadily being eroded by political pandering to white anxiety in the midst of growing diversity.

In Richmond, churches retrace the path of the enslaved to confront their own history

RICHMOND, Va. (RNS) — Just as the country prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — and Juneteenth — Virginia Episcopalians are trying to reckon with the role of their city and their denomination in slavery as a founding reality of the United States.

A lifetime cheering for the Knicks taught me to embrace pilgrimage 

(RNS ) — Sacred, secular or somewhere in between, pilgrimages are journeys of intention.