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Jack Jenkins

Jack Jenkins is a national reporter for Religion News Service.

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Mariann Budde to resign, will remain in post during replacement process

Mariann Budde, who shot to fame after urging President Donald Trump to have mercy on immigrants and others, announced she plans to resign as head of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington....
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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas

When Adam Hamilton returned to Resurrection United Methodist Church last month, the megachurch pastor stood onstage looking almost sheepish....
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Amid ICE killings, more than 100 clergy from across the US stage protest at Delaney Hall

Amid the recent killings of two immigrants by immigration enforcement agents, around 100 religious leaders from across the country staged a protest outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention cent...
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Despite DHS force, faith leaders keep ministering at Delaney Hall

Moments before Department of Homeland Security agents fired a hail of pepper balls at the feet of demonstrators outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, faith lea...
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Pope Leo calls just war theory ‘outdated’ in new encyclical 

While Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical mostly focuses on AI, it also includes language that suggests that Catholics move past their longstanding reliance on just war theory, offering an assessment of ...
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Black clergy strategize and preach after Voting Rights Act gutting

On the first Sunday after the Supreme Court decided to hollow out the Voting Rights Act, Richelle Lewis-Castine offered some clear advice to her congregation in Patterson, Louisiana....
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Evangelical groups warn Trump’s deportations could leave 1.3 million ‘torn apart’ from families

A new report created by a pair of evangelical Christian organizations is raising alarms about the effects of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort on families, arguing that more than 1 m...
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In criticizing Leo and posting image of himself resembling Jesus, Trump sparks outcry from religious allies

A pair of social media posts published by President Donald Trump over the weekend have stirred backlash, including from some of the president’s Catholic and evangelical supporters, who condemned hi...
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Progressive faith leaders found new power in protesting ICE. Can the movement survive?

Two years ago, Quincy Worthington did not consider himself an activist....
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Maine clergy form “spiritual shield” outside workplaces to protect immigrants from ICE

For the past week or so, every morning at around 7:15, Jane Field, a Presbyterian Church (USA) minister and executive director of the Maine Council of Churches, drives out to a business in the grea...

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Minneapolis clergy exposed to pepper spray after rushing to scene of deadly ICE shooting

At least two pastors were among those shoved, shot at with pepper rounds, and exposed to pepper spray while protesting the actions of federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Wednesday, as prot...
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Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations

At first glance, the nativity scene outside Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, has all the traditional hallmarks: Mary and Joseph stand near a baby Jesus, who rests in a manger....
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As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants

For nearly 2 1/2 years, Amity Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, has considered itself one congregation that mostly operates as two separate worship services: One, conducted in Engli...
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At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest

In video recorded on November 14 outside the embattled US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, Michael Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters, fiddling awkwardly w...
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Faith leaders join Democrats to decry health care cuts, expiring SNAP benefits

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats joined faith leaders on Thursday to pray and speak against the dangers of health care cuts and allowing government assistance programs to e...
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After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago

Last Friday, Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Bro...

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