Maryland GovPics / commons.wikimedia org
In September, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University. In the aftermath of that shooting, as the temperature of our political discourse soared ever higher, Utah Governor Spencer Cox chose a different path. He called people to “disagree better,” continuing his efforts to change the direction of political debate.…

X
Australian authorities have identified one of the gunmen who opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach as 24-year-old Naveed Akram, as new details emerge about the targeted attack that authorities are treating as terrorism. Sixteen people were killed, including one of the gunmen, and 40 others were wounded in the shooting, which…

Adobe Stock
On December 5, the Supreme Court agreed to accept the Trump Administration’s appeal of the lower court ruling in Trump v. Barbara, one of the so-called “birthright citizenship” cases. (Likely, the Court’s decision in this case will also resolve the other cases.) In January, President Trump issued an executive order that would eliminate birthright citizenship…

Left: The White House | Right: Lorie Shaull / commons.wikimedia.org
President Donald Trump recently described Somali immigrants as “garbage” who “come from hell” at the end of a Cabinet meeting. Specifically referring to Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, a Somalian congresswoman from Minnesota, Trump further escalated his claims by describing “Somalia in the Horn of Africa as ‘barely a country’ and accused refugees in the Twin…

More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners