Asatru in America: Faith or Fascism?

TRT is the national public broadcaster of TÜRKİYE, established in 1964 and broadcasting since 1968. 

Mar 17, 2025 ~A new religion is spreading, but it’s not open to everyone. In this episode of My America, Nathan Howard investigates the AsatruFolk Assembly, a pre-Christian pagan movement with strict racial boundaries. Their churches operate across the US, membership is growing, and they welcome military personnel into their ranks. Nathan gains unprecedented access inside the Asatru Folk Assembly church, witnessing their rituals and confronting their leaders on their exclusionary beliefs. Are they simply preserving European traditions, as they claim? Or is this the latest evolution of organised white supremacy? The Southern Poverty Law Centre and the Anti-Defamation League have labelled the AFA as an extremist hate group, while the FBI has quietly investigated their recruiting tactics. Who are the people behind Asatru Folk Assembly? What do they really believe? And what does their growing influence mean for America’s future? Watch now as My America pulls back the curtain on one of the most controversial religious movements in the US today.

What it means to be a Black man in a white Christian workplace

Community is inconvenient. But worth it

By Meagan Manas

When the author got a second car, her life was much easier. But that convenience came at a cost — the small connections between people that build a sense of belonging.

Here we go again: What it means to be a Black man in a white Christian workplace

By Kenneth Young

The pressure to refute the “diversity hire” narrative is exhausting and demoralizing for people of color, writes the associate director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches.

Failure as faithfulness

By Sarah E. Forsyth

The parable of the sower and modern-day design thinkers challenge us to take risks rather than fear failure, writes an associate director for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity’s Thriving Congregations Coordination Program.

How do you care for federal workers losing their livelihoods and vocations?

By David Lewicki

Soup, a reserve fund and protests — these are some ways that a church in Atlanta is responding to families reliant on jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Five years after the start of the COVID pandemic, here are three ways congregations continue to be affected

By Leslie Quander Wooldridge

The emergence of COVID changed our lives. Professor and researcher Scott Thumma highlights how congregations have changed.

The hard and surprisingly hopeful lessons for churches five years after COVID

By Edie Gross

Pastors share what they’ve learned about their congregations, about the work of the church and about themselves five years after the pandemic forced most to close their doors.

Leadership questions

•  How is your congregation enabling acts of resistance and resilience in the face of trauma and strife? •  What is the most transformational work of your church?

A movement to destroy U.S. democracy controls the presidency

Former Texas megachurch pastor accused of child sex abuse surrenders in Oklahoma
The Associated Press: Robert Preston Morris, 63, turned himself in to officials in Osage County, where he was charged last week with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child

A movement to destroy U.S. democracy controls the presidency, congress, and the Supreme Court — but what’s behind it?
Religion Dispatches: The antidemocratic political movement in the United States, though diverse and complicated, is united in its rejection of the Enlightenment ideals on which the republic was founded and represents the most serious threat to American democracy since the Civil War.

In Mennonite pastor Isaac Villegas’ new book, God is a migrant, too
Religion News Service: “Migrant God,” offers a theological vision for the ways Christian faith transcends national borders and is rooted in solidarity with migrants.

Popular Mormon podcasters resign from LDS church, a step ahead of excommunication
Religion News Service: Valerie and Nathan Hamaker, co-hosts of “Latter Day Struggles,” have resigned their LDS church membership rather than attend a church disciplinary council that was likely to result in their excommunication.

See you in the funny papers: How superhero comics tell the story of Jewish America
The Conversation: Jewish American artists were at the heart of the comics industry — and a closer read of beloved characters reflects fears about assimilation and acceptance.

The Black Church Has a Gen-Z Issue:

Black churches across the country are struggling to get younger congregants through their doors. Church membership has plunged among Black adults by almost 20 percentage points in the last two decades, according to Gallup. And among the Black Millennials and members of Generation Z who do attend religious services, about half do so at majority Black churches, compared with two-thirds of Black baby boomers and members of the Silent Generation, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

Though many houses of worship across America are struggling with falling membership, the singular standing of the Black church means that its declining numbers have far-reaching consequences for social cohesion and Black political power writ large.

Next Sunday, March 23rd at Hope Presbyterian Church

 The Presbyterian Church of Ghana has a congregation in San Diego called Hope Presbyterian Church and they meet weekly at Christ United Presbyterian Church 3025 Fir Street San Diego, CA 92102​ in South Park. 

Next Sunday, March 23rd at 2:30pm pastor of CUPCSD Kerry Allison will be preaching.

 

covenantchurchsd 03.16.2025

 

Covenant Church at 30th & Howard  is a Christian church in the tradition of the Protestant Reformation. We believe the Scriptures to be the infallible Word of God and our final authority in faith and practice, and we find the historic creeds of the early church (the Apostles’ Creed and Nicene Creed) to be vital expressions of the most important tenets of the global church universal.

Trinity North Park 03.16.2025

 

Trinity UnitedMethodist Church has been part of the North Park community since 1915, bringing warmth and connection to our neighbors for over 100 years. We seek to KNOW, LOVE, and SERVE God and our neighbors through study, worship, community events, outreach and service projects, and having fun together! We'd love to have you join us as we grow in faith and love here in North Park.

San Diego Japanese Christian Church 03.16.2025

 

San Diego Japanese Christian Church (SDJCC) is here to share the good news that a dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is the key to abundant living in today’s world. Our church was founded as an outreach to Japanese speaking farmers in San Diego County over 80 years ago. SDJCC now has English and Japanese speaking ministries.

Christ United Presbyterian San Diego 03.16.2025

 

Christ United Presbyterian Church is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Rev. Dr. Kerry Allison is the pastor of this parish church in South Park. We were established in 1981 when an invitation was extended to two churches—Brooklyn Heights Presbyterian, established in 1921 and the Golden Hill Presbyterian, established in 1956—to merge and each church accepted. The late Reverend Doctor George Walker Smith founded Golden Hill Presbyterian Church in 1956 with support from the Presbyterian Women organization. The church, located at 22nd and Market in South Park, became a human rights leader in San Diego as the congregation grew. Reverend Smith was the first black school board member in San Diego. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. Christ United continues its ministry in power and presence to the present day. All are welcome to join us in worship and togetherness.

Renew San Diego Sunday Service March 2, 2025

 

Since Easter of 2018 we’ve met weekly on Sundays and developed our capacity to serve our neighbors, especially those in great need spiritually, physically or emotionally. At Renew, you’ll find a community that reflects the diversity of center-city San Diego. We welcome and include people of every ethnicity and culture, believing and unbelieving (most of us a mixture of these), wealthy and poor, inclusive of sexual orientation and marital status.