Faith leaders in the US advocate for peace in the Israeli-Hamas conflict, while differing opinions emerge. Regardless of their stance, they prioritize prayer and religious practices to navigate challenging times.
The Proud Boys desecrated several historic Black churches in D.C. prior to Jan. 6. One church, suing for millions, hopes to neutralize the hate group for good.
Too many Americans are indifferent to their own history and know too little about it. This ignorance makes the present more baffling than it needs to be. Adam Hochschild has written a fine book about a grim period a century ago that has largely disappeared from national memory but seems painfully relevant to America in the 2020s. "American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy s Forgotten Crisis" describes vividly a time when racism, white nationalism, and anti-foreign and anti-immigrant sentiment were rampant. Reading it is almost therapeutic. Realizing (thanks to this book) that American democracy survived that dark moment and a decade later began half a century of democratic renewal made this reader more hopeful than he has been in quite a while.