America: Don’t be a stranger

Mainline Protestants are having a political moment. Can they move from protest to power?

(RNS) — ‘I do think Christian faith, rightly construed and in a pluralist way, can be a really, really smart strategy for Democrats to pursue in these states that they haven't been as strong in,’ said Heath Carter, a scholar of American religion at Princeton Theological Seminary.

The fall of the Etsy witch

(RNS) — The online marketplace is no longer putting the ‘craft’ in witchcraft.

Christian blogger Samuel Sey, arrested by ICE, has been removed to Canada, family says

(RNS) — Samuel Sey, who immigrated to Canada from Ghana in childhood, moved to the U.S. in 2022 to get married. His family initially believed a paperwork mistake had led to his arrest. A series of conservative Christian influencers had rallied to his cause.

In another historic move, Pope Leo casts absentee US vote from Rome

(RNS) — ‘The Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes,’ the Vatican said.

Why Hollywood keeps turning to Catholicism for horror

(RNS) — ‘When a vampire is at your door or your child is possessed, you don't call for a Methodist,’ said Matthew J. Cressler, the co-author of the new book ‘Body and Blood: Catholic Horror in America.’