Quote"I try to love my neighbor through public policy," the Presbyterian seminarian told the congregation. "I'm trying to make my neighbor's life easier, better, less stressful."

From Quaker abolitionists to the Social Gospel's challenge to industrial exploitation, progressive religious institutions have helped drive some of America's most consequential political transformations. Christian farmworker ministries supported migrant laborers before joining the United Farm Workers' California grape boycotts in the 1960s. And while Black churches overwhelmingly led, sustained, and suffered the brunt of violence in the fight for equal civil rights in this country, a handful of white denominations joined them.

According to PRRI's Census of American Religion, which was published in April, 57 percent of Democrats identified as Christian in 2025, a significant drop from 70 percent in 2013. The white Christian left isn't necessarily growing, but it's far from insignificant. Much of it has simply been politically overlooked.

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/30/texas-christian-left-democrats-haynes-talarico-hinojosa/

QuoteDecades later, on a family holiday with her own sons, Rachel asked again.

"I said to my mum, 'Oh, Joseph's 10 now... Ian was 10 when you let him go with Dad and Irene.'"

She says her mum was "beside herself with guilt and the shame... for her selfish decisions"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxddv1vygpvmo

QuoteA California husband allegedly killed his wife's lover in a fit of rage after he came home early from work and found the man in his underwear with her in bed — alongside their two young children.

https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/us-news/california-man-ismael-pinedalopez-kills-wifes-lover-after-finding-him-in-bed-with-her-at-their-home-da/

QuoteA Spanish study found many divorced fathers lost touch with their kids decades ago, while divorced mothers stayed close.

https://studyfinds.com/why-so-many-older-divorced-men-face-aging-with-no-one-to-call/