The Sermon on the Mount
My sermon is going to be different today. If you are visiting, I’m so glad you are here, but I need to inform you that today’s sermon is nothing like every other sermon I preach from week to week. And this is why: According to Bob Smietana, from LifeWay Research, “more than half of Americans have r…
$438 Million Later, What Does This Faith-Tech Company Actually Do?
RNS reporter Bob Smietana on Gloo, the faith-tech company chasing a one-stop IT/AI solution for churches.
Nearly half a billion dollars, gone, over thirteen years.
That's how much a company called Gloo has lost trying to build an all-in-one digital & administrative powerhouse for what it's callin…
Whose Religion?
The fight over church and state is back in the classroom.
Texas requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools. Similar laws have emerged in Louisiana and Arkansas, while states are also considering Bible-based curriculum and school chaplain programs. Supporters argue these polici…
High Church on Chicago’s South Side
Pope Hats, Hot Dogs and Holy Ground:
Baseball has long been called a kind of church. It has its own calendar and rituals, its sacred places and inherited traditions. Its faithful gather at appointed times, sing familiar songs, share food, pass stories from one generation to the next, and keep beli…
The Rise Of The Jim Crow Theobros
Across YouTube, podcasts and church conferences, a new group of pastors and influencers is promoting an openly racist and baldly antisemitic vision of Christian America. They present themselves not as extremists, but as respectable religious leaders defending truths that others are afraid to say.
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Jim Crow Theobros, Pastors Running as Democrats, and 2028 Polling Data
Theobros are a new genre of Internet influencer who discuss theology on podcasts. They have been gaining an online following by saying the Bible supports their segregationist and antisemitic views. Bob Smietana from Religion News Service reported on these Theobros, and spoke to The Bulletin about …
Is This the Future of Christian Nationalism? The Theobros & Hegseth
The theology of Christian Nationalism is light on CHRISTian and heavy on Nationalism. This framing empowers Theobros like Joshua Haymes to claim that "it is not inherently evil to own another human being," and still claim to be a Christian. So where is Jesus in all of this?
In this week's episode,…
The Ride Home with Kathy Emmons - Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Today's Guests:
Bob Smietana - National reporter for Religion News Service
Jim Essian - Lead pastor at Paradox Church (Fort Worth, TX), founder of Plant Fort Worth, author, and former professional baseball player
Taofik Lucas-Walker - Actor who previously played professional soccer
See omnystud…
Rise of the Jim Crow theobros
They pose behind luxuriant, often ludicrous moustaches, smoke pipes and affect an air of genteel intellectuals.
But these so-called "theo-bros", as in theological, have very radical agenda to change America that hearkens back to the country’s worst times.
Bob Smietana has been tracking this online…
Humanitarian crisis in Gaza and global rise of antisemitism
In the three years since the gruesome Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people, and included the documented use of sexual violence, Israel has responded with its own fierce bombardment of the Gaza strip. An estimated 70,000 people have died, mostly from Israeli air attacks. From the October …
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