News & Updates

Faith is Standing Strong: Rev. Dr. Shannon Fleck

Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Faithful America Executive Director Rev. Dr. Shannon Fleck about the threat to the constitutional Establishment Clause posed by the Supreme Court case St Isidore, and the hope for bringing people together across lines of division around shared values and priorities.

CNN: Trump turns civil rights upside down in ‘biggest rollback’ since Reconstruction

Interfaith Alliance Opposes the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA)

On April 29th, Interfaith Alliance joined our colleagues at over 30 other organizations across civil society in opposing the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA). By giving the federal government the power to withhold funding from organizations who run afoul of a particular definition of antisemitism, the AAA would needlessly stifle political free speech and empower the administration’s repressive agenda. 

Tracking Trump's executive orders: Targeting NPR and PBS

Executive Order 14290 suggests that National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) are not presenting a “fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.”

Tracking Trump's executive orders: Religious Liberty Commission

This executive order establishes a commission of up to 14 presidential appointees and multiple advisory boards to advise the White House on various issues of religious liberty. The official appointees include 13 members: Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (Chair), Dr. Ben Carson, Ryan T. Anderson, Bishop Robert Barron, Carrie Prejean Boller, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Pastor Franklin Graham, Allyson Ho, Dr. Phil McGraw, Eric Metaxas, Kelly Shackelford, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, and Pastor Paula White

Axios: Exclusive: Christian leaders blast Trump's "anti-Christian bias" unit