Faith in the News: New survey on American Jews and 2024, SBC exec committee, Christian schools suing Colorado

A mosque amongst homes in Bristol, UK. Image credit: Toby Melville / Reuters

Faith in the News, week of 14 August 2023

• Willie McLaurin, interim CEO of the SBC’s executive committee, resigned for falsifying his education credentials on his resume. (RNS)

• A new survey from the Center on American Life finds that for the 2024 election, American Jews are more focused on sociopolitical issues than economic issues. 79% are concerned about gun violence, compared to 58% of the broader American population. 56% and 50% of respondents said that climate change and abortion respectively are very big problems today, and these percentages are significantly higher than the broader American population. (Deseret)