National News

PRESBYTERIAN OUTLOOK - Long-term disability benefits can be a lifeline for PC(USA) pastors unable to work, but some say accessing that Board of Pensions support can add stress at an already vulnerable time.

CHRISTIAN CENTURY - Last fall, a group of students at Palo Alto High School took a field trip to a local mosque, meeting the mosque’s imam and a Muslim civil rights lawyer.

RNS - s anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.

CHRISTIAN CENTURY - On the first day in 16 years that three people on death row were scheduled to be executed on the same day, faith groups in Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Iowa tolled their bells as part of a campaign led by the Death Penalty Action advocacy group. In Tennessee, they rang for two minutes at 10 a.m. CT that coincided with a scheduled execution in the state.