Brian Kaylor

1 month ago | publicwitness.wordandway.org | Brian Kaylor

St. Isidore of Seville, a 7th-century Church leader in modern-day Spain, is often called the “patron saint of the Internet.” The theologian and bishop who lived quite a few years before the creation of the Internet receives this unofficial patron status because of his ambitious project to compile universal knowledge in his tome Etymologiae, which became an influential textbook during the Middle Ages.

1 month ago | wordandway.org | Brian Kaylor |Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

NOTE: This piece was originally published at our Substack newsletter A Public Witness. Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth day of April, in Seventy-Five. With those opening lines, famed poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow commemorated Paul Revere’s ride to warn that British troops were coming toward Boston.

1 month ago | wordandway.org | Brian Kaylor |Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

NOTE: This piece was originally published at our Substack newsletter A Public Witness. For years, Rev. Shannon Fleck has been challenging Christian Nationalism in what could be called the state leading the way in advancing the ideology. Now, she’s ready to focus not just on mobilizing Christians in Oklahoma but also across the nation. Last week, the advocacy group Faithful America named Fleck, a minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), as the organization’s new executive director.

1 month ago | wordandway.org | Brian Kaylor |Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

When the Biden administration issued a rule in 2021 prohibiting institutions of higher education from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in housing, some Christian schools quickly filed legal actions to block the rule. The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, which has over 180 member institutions, backed the effort filed by some of its members.

1 month ago | wordandway.org | Brian Kaylor |Jeremy Fuzy |Jeremy Füzy

NOTE: This piece was originally published at our Substack newsletter A Public Witness. “I believe in the separation of church and state. This isn’t a hard equation because the kind of religion that the state traditionally enforces has not been good for my people.”Author and historian Jemar Tisby offered that assessment as he contrasted the difference between Christian Nationalism and the political witness of the Black Christian tradition.