Homeless at The Rock
- November/December 2024
- November 1, 2024
A Colorado church goes to court after its homeless program is derailed by a town’s zoning regulations. The Ukrainian family of 10 faced a housing crisis in the U.S. state of Colorado. The father didn’t have a job. The mother couldn’t work because she was caring for their eight children. The local county, which had
READ MOREThe present-day dangers of distorting America’s past. By Warren Throckmorton and Michael CoulterIllustration by Brian Stauffer Worship music played softly in the background. Microphone in hand, a casually dressed man proclaimed to the attentive crowd, “The number-one qualification for being mayor of Tulsa is that I am an unashamed follower of Jesus.” The congregation erupted
READ MOREAs a nation we’re on the cusp of a dark new era of religious persecution—or at least that’s the impression I get when I read fundraising emails sent from various religious liberty advocacy groups. “Our freedoms are on the line!” warns one message. “Are you concerned about the erosion of religious liberty?” asks another. “Your
READ MOREThe unexpected benefits for congregations willing to put political divisions aside to engage in their communities. In the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, there is approximately one place of worship for every 570 people. For context, the city of Boston has one place of worship for every 1,107 people and is ranked tenth in the
READ MOREA group of former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is suing the church for alleged misrepresentation about the way their tithe money was used. In Gaddy v. Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints the former members are asking for the return of their
READ MOREA former U.S. diplomat argues for fresh thinking and twenty-first-century tools to fight religious persecution. There are few people who know more about the inner workings of America’s diplomatic efforts to promote religious freedom abroad than Knox Thames. For two decades Thames traveled the world on behalf of the United States—from Turkmenistan to Iraq, Egypt
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