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  • Texas Created a Program to Fund Religious Schools. So Why Are Muslim Schools Missing?

    Texas Created a Program to Fund Religious Schools. So Why Are Muslim Schools Missing?
    2026/03/17
    Muslim families in Texas are asking: does school choice include us? A Houston father went to enroll his kids in Texas's new school voucher program and discovered his school wasn't on the list — along with every other Islamic school in the state. Texas launched one of the country's largest school choice programs promising families public funds for religious private schools, but roughly a hundred Muslim schools were excluded without official explanation. State officials have posted publicly about not funding schools tied to terrorist organizations, pointing to Governor Abbott's designation of CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization — a designation the federal government has not made. Now families are suing with a March 17th deadline bearing down. Amanda Henderson talks with RNS reporter Fiona André and editor-in-chief Paul O'Donnell about the lawsuits, the communities affected, and what this moment reveals about who "school choice" was really built for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    18 分
  • Baptizing the Battlefield: Pete Hegseth's Holy War at the Pentagon

    Baptizing the Battlefield: Pete Hegseth's Holy War at the Pentagon
    2026/03/10
    Troops are maybe being briefed for Armageddon. We saw this coming. Unit commanders are reportedly telling troops the Iran war is God's plan to trigger the rapture. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received 200+ complaints. This is the episode that saw it coming. RNS reporter Jack Jenkins joins Amanda Henderson to unpack how Pete Hegseth's faith-driven military leadership — Pentagon worship services, Lord's Prayer over fighter jets, a Secretary of War calling the nation to "accept Christ" — laid the groundwork for where we are now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 分
  • From Purity Rings to Shooting Your Dog: How Christian Womanhood Went MAGA

    From Purity Rings to Shooting Your Dog: How Christian Womanhood Went MAGA
    2026/03/02
    When empathy became toxic and cruelty became strength for Christian women. Christian womanhood has changed—and not in the ways many expected. In this episode, Amanda Henderson talks with the co-hosts of the Saved By The City podcast Katelyn Beaty and Roxanne Stone about the shift from 1990s purity culture to today’s trad wives, MAGA moms, and warnings against “toxic empathy.” They unpack how pandemic burnout, influencer culture, and widening political gender gaps reshaped the ideal Christian woman—and why empathy itself has become a flashpoint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 分
  • What's Next for American Jews and Israel? A Half-Century of Consensus Weakens.

    What's Next for American Jews and Israel? A Half-Century of Consensus Weakens.
    2026/02/23
    Are six decades of solidarity giving way to generational strain? For much of the last half-century, support for Israel was a defining pillar of American Jewish life. It shaped institutions, philanthropy, politics, and identity. The consensus wasn’t always quiet — but it was broad. Today, that consensus is under strain. Younger American Jews — many raised in synagogues, camps, and on Birthright trips — are expressing a different relationship to Israel than their parents and grandparents. Some are building alternative communities. Some are challenging legacy organizations. Some are questioning whether Israel should remain the organizing center of American Jewish life at all. Meanwhile, established institutions are responding with urgency — and anxiety – warning of rising antisemitism, political danger, and fractures that could reshape the community for decades. This tension didn’t begin on October 7. But October 7 — and the war that followed — has intensified it. Religion reporter Yonat Shimron joins us to trace the full arc: from postwar American Jewish flourishing, to decades of near-consensus, to the generational and institutional rupture unfolding now. What changed? Who gets to define Jewish responsibility? And what happens next? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 分
  • When Trauma Becomes Identity: What Young Jews Are Learning After October 7

    When Trauma Becomes Identity: What Young Jews Are Learning After October 7
    2026/02/16
    "We're the people everyone hates." That's what Rabbi Steven Burg hears when he asks young Jews who they are. October 7 accelerated this. In the aftermath of the attacks, lines were drawn between support for an occupied Gaza and the security of the Jewish state and people. Progressive coalitions found themselves fracturing. Interfaith partnerships strained to stay together. Students found themselves abandoned by people they thought were allies. But Burg says the problem runs deeper than politics. In this episode, host Amanda Henderson talks with Rabbi Steven Burg about what happens to religious identity when an entire generation can only define themselves by who hates them—and what it takes to move from trauma to something they're actually for. RELATED: Rabbi Steven Burg: "We cannot allow ourselves to be reduced to victims." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 分
  • The Rev. William Barber II: Fighting Autocrats Starts at the Grassroots

    The Rev. William Barber II: Fighting Autocrats Starts at the Grassroots
    2026/02/10
    Complexified welcomes the Rev. William Barber II, architect of the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina, as he sets out to reclaim voters that ran to the right in the last presidential election.Who are these voters? Low-income voters earning less than $50,000 who favored Donald Trump by roughly 1% in 2024. That margin, according to Rev. Barber, is reversible, by campaigning being for something instead of against.Join host Amanda Henderson as she and Rev. Barber discuss the presumptions around low income voters, movement strategizing, modes of resistance, and responds to a challenge issued by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to debate immigration theology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 分
  • Abortions Rose After Dobbs—And the March for Life Knows It

    Abortions Rose After Dobbs—And the March for Life Knows It
    2026/02/02
    The applause was muted when Trump appeared on video. One year ago, the March for Life felt like a rock concert. This year, JD Vance had to contend with detractors from the stage. The pro-life movement got what it wanted—Dobbs overturned Roe. But abortions in America have actually risen since the decision. Nearly two-thirds now happen through medication abortion, mifepristone prescribed via telehealth, accessible even in states with bans. The Trump administration won't restrict it. Vance called that choice "prudential"—politically wise. The crowd wasn't buying it. One man said he trusted Trump's negotiating skills, then started crying. Reporter Aleja Hertzler-McCain takes us inside a movement with profound conviction confronting political calculation, and only one person in thousands holding a sign about immigration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 分
  • Quiet Quitting Church: When the Numbers Reveal Everything and Explain Nothing

    Quiet Quitting Church: When the Numbers Reveal Everything and Explain Nothing
    2026/01/30
    Trying to put smoke in a box That's what it feels like to map why churches are dying. Most people who leave can't tell you why. They drifted. Three times a month became twice, then never. Ryan Burge, a sociologist and pastor, tracks the contradictions: the religiously unaffiliated climbed to 30% and stopped. Some churches that should close stay open. Others with resources fold anyway. Organizations scratch and claw past their expiration dates in ways no model captures. New Atheism ran out of steam. Baby boomers are aging out. And nobody can predict what happens next because the data reveals patterns but can't explain the drift. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 分