February: What We’re Reading

Editor’s Note: From time-to-time, Trista Soendker Nicholson, our interim executive director, will commend articles and stories that have attracted her attention. The list varies but we know that the time spent reading will provide valuable insight into the ways faith is practiced in public life. Move your mouse over the descriptions to find the links. Enjoy her list for February.

Lots to read and listen to about the intersections of faith and politics. These readings offer a diversity of perspectives to continue our growth as public theologians. You are invited to read, reflect and enter into the conversation as we process what we are learning.

• Russel Contreras for Axios: Where Christian nationalism is most dominant in the U.S.

• Tom Schaller for Public Notice on which Christians count when politicians talk about anti-Christian persecution

• Josephine Walker for Axios: Clergy say Jesus’ teachings leave Christians no choice but to resist ICE

• Brian Kaylor, Baptist preacher and editor in chief of Word&Way, writes about his work to stop a Christian Nationalist bill in the Missouri legislature

• Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan says Vice President JD Vance ‘apologized’ for ‘out of line’ comments about US bishops and immigration

• Jordan Ritter Conn of The Ringer does a deep dive into the community-based resistance to federal immigration incursions in Minnesota, much of which is based in churches

• Rabbi Shai Held writes about “the Bible’s Greatest Moral Revolutions” for the New York Times.