Pope Leo XIV used his Palm Sunday sermon to take what appears to be a shot at U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. In his sermon, excerpts of which he published on social media, the pope emphasized Christian teachings against violence while criticizing anyone who would invoke Jesus Christ to justify a war. “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to…
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth asked Pentagon officials to pray for “overwhelming violence” against enemies in Iran and elsewhere in the “name of Jesus Christ” at a Christian worship service on Wednesday. The remarks, made at Hegseth’s monthly worship service — the first he’s held since the U.S. and Israel began their war on Iran — reinforced public concerns over his Christian nationalist…
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Roughly one in three Americans are Christian nationalists or sympathetic to the cause, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, also found strong connections between support for Christian nationalism and support for the Republican Party and President Donald Trump in particular. “I think the threat is (to) our democracy…
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University of Oklahoma (OU) students are demonstrating in solidarity with a transgender graduate student who was suspended from their role as teaching assistant for a psychology class over a student’s dubious claims that she received a failing grade due to her Christian beliefs. The assignment in question was supposed to be a reaction to an academic article on gender. But the paper written by…
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