Food fight for religious schools resolved. Religious schools need not follow new Biden administration Title IX guidelines in order to receive federal funding for school lunch programs, according to new guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The announcement comes amid a major battle that somehow wraps up gender identity and cafeteria food. This […]
Next week, Alex Wagner takes over the MSNBC slot once held by Rachel Maddow, who now broadcasts only on Monday evenings. (Wagner will handle the other four nights of the week.) Let’s mark the occasion by dusting off the story that Maddow once declared her favorite. It wasn’t a super-serious segment. It’s one of those […]
The United Methodists are the second-largest Protestant Christian denomination in the United States, and they’re headed for a split. That might seem like an internecine affair, something of interest mainly to Methodists or, at most, other churches hoping to poach some congregants amid the chaos. But big church splits as politically tinged as this one […]
In a zoning Catch-22, a small Christian congregation in Bedford, New Hampshire, is being told by local officials that because it got permission to add a meeting hall to a house it uses for church services, it has to stop using that house to host church services. The church is now suing Bedford, arguing that […]
Officials in the Swiss canton of Geneva have banned evangelical churches that aren’t affiliated with the government from baptizing people in Lake Geneva. “Only organizations permitted to have relations with the state can request authorization for a public religious event,” said officials in a statement. Religious organizations that don’t have governmental approval can conduct events […]