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DHS Admits It Doesn’t Know How Many Churches It Has Spied On (opens the original)
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A federal judge recently ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to report about any protected church where it has conducted an immigration enforcement action. But the agency told the court it had no idea how many incidents there may be, insisting it had no reasonable way to check its own records.After revelations last month that DHS secretly spied in a Baptist church in Minnesota covered by a federal injunction blocking warrantless DHS enforcement actions, the judge who granted the inj
Weekly Roundup: Sept. 25 (opens the original)
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Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to an announcement about upcoming events and a review of a new book that are free for anyone to read, paid subscribers to A Public Witness received a look at pa
An Act Against One Church Is An Act Against All (opens the original)
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“I believe in an America … where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.”U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy made that declaration in September of 1960 as he found himself locked in a tight race for the presidency against Vice President Richard Nixon. Sixty-six years later, the warnings in his speech ag… Read more </
Book Recommendation: American Caesar (opens the original)
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Great writing like this is made possible by paid subscribers to A Public Witness. Please consider upgrading today, as your annual $50 subscription sustains this ministry. We literally can’t do this without you.One of the best compliments you can give a horror film is to describe it as “chilling.” That’s also the most accurate word to describe Bradley Onishi’s new book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-caesar-how-theocrats-and-tech-
Unpacking Christian Nationalism in the Twin Cities (opens the original)
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Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretly spied on Lutheran, Baptist, Episcopal, and Unitarian Universalist churches in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. This came after months of clergy helping lead the resistance against federal agents targeting immigrants and killing U.S. citizens in the streets. So in a city that has lived through some of the devastating impacts of Christian Nationalism, it’s appropr
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