Despite its pastor being admitted into the ICU with a novel coronavirus diagnosis, an Idaho church is planning to reopen this weekend.
Source: An Idaho Pastor Landed in ICU with COVID-19. His Church Plans to Reopen This Week.

A pastor was reportedly told that his preaching lisence would not be renewed after he offered a public endorsement of Joe Biden for the presidency.
Source: Pastor Says His Preaching License Will Not Be Renewed over His Support of Joe Biden

Councilmembers in Niles, Illinois have officially dropped charges levied against a church pastor for holding church services. The pastor, however, is still facing fines of some $800.
Source: City Council Drops Charges against Pastor Fined 0 for Holding Church Services

Historical ignorance not only prevents us from learning from the evils of the past, we risk not even being able to recognize the evils of the past when they reemerge in our time.
Source: Why Forgetting the Holocaust Is Disastrous

As we will discuss tomorrow, I disagreed with Justice Ginsburg on a host of biblical issues, but I’m grateful for the way she inspired generations of women to know that they can accomplish their dreams. Like Moses, you and I are created in God’s image (Genesis 1:27) with a unique role he intends for us in the drama he is directing through the ages.
Source: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Our Unique Role in God’s Drama of the Ages

In the presidential race against Joe Biden, Catholics have emerged as a swing vote.

While white evangelicals remain a core voting bloc for President Donald Trump, in the 2020 race against Joe Biden white Catholics are expected to be a crucial demographic.

Data indicates that Biden—a lifelong member of the Catholic church—may shift the white Catholic vote away from the Republican leanings it held for the past four presidential elections and make it a true swing vote going forward.

Even small changes among Catholics could affect the electoral outcome, particularly in swing states. In 2016, Donald Trump won Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida by narrow margins of 1 percent to 1.2 percent of the votes cast.

Despite all the chatter around the strong support that Trump received from white Christians and white evangelicals last election, their voting patterns in 2016 were relatively consistent with elections going back to 2008.

Across Christian traditions, white voters have been relatively stable but have slowly drifted toward the Republican Party by 3–4 percentage points in eight years. (Nonwhite Christians, particularly black Protestants, have historically favored the Democratic Party by strong margins and are expected to continue to do so this year.)

For instance, in the 2008 presidential matchup, 78 percent of white evangelicals cast their ballots for Barack Obama’s Republican challenger, John McCain. Trump did just a few points better in 2016, with 81 percent.

The partisan split among white Catholics and white mainline Protestants mostly held steady as well. In both 2008 and 2012, 56 percent of white Catholics voted for the GOP, and that nudged up just slightly to 59 percent in 2016.

For mainline Protestants, the vote in 2008 was nearly evenly split, with John McCain receiving a slim majority …

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Source: Trump Can Afford to Slip Among White Evangelicals, But Not White Catholics

How involved Christians should be in politics has been long debated. While many believe it is essential to particpate politics and to fulfill our civic duty, others think the church and Christians have no place in the political arena. Here are five reasons I believe Christians will stay out of politics this year:
Source: 5 Reasons Why Christians Will Avoid Politics This November

In an interview this week, former NFL player and outspoken Christian Benjamin Watson urged Americans to look outside of their own borders and help persecuted Christians in Nigeria.
Source: Benjamin Watson Urges Americans to Fight for Persecuted Christians in Nigeria

Ohio’s governor signed a bill into law on Wednesday banning present and future public officials from enforcing mandatory closures of houses of worship.
Source: Ohio Governor Signs Bill Banning Officals from Closing Houses of Worship

The National Church in Iceland was recently under fire for running an ad that featured Jesus with breasts, wearing makeup and in a dress.
Source: 'The Goal Was to Emphasize Diversity': Church Apologizes for Ad Featuring Jesus with Breasts, Wearing Makeup