Gen Z’s sweatpants and Crocs-wearing evangelist On the penultimate night of his I Love Jesus tour in late March, 22-year-old evangelist Bryce Crawford stepped onstage wearing wide-legged sweatpants, a cross-themed vintage tee and Lightning McQueen-shaped Crocs. “Who has their physical Bibles in the room?” he asked with a slight Georgia drawl. Throughout the 975-seat Crest Theatre in Sacramento, hands gripping Bibles sprang up. “Wow, amazing!” he said, before joking, “You know, for everyone who doesn’t have their Bibles … God’s gonna judge the earth.” After graduating high school in 2022, Crawford began traveling around Southern California — with a cameraman in tow — to “bring hope” to “the darkest places on earth,” as he told Hayden Royster, who reported the story for RNS. In a few short years, Crawford has become one of the most popular evangelical voices of his generation. But whether his virality is driving a real movement remains to be seen. Top Stories | (RNS) — Twenty-two-year-old Bryce Crawford is becoming one of the internet’s most popular evangelical voices through his street preaching videos, podcast and national tour. But whether he is driving a real movement — and where this is all heading — remains to be seen. |
 | (RNS) — In the hours after the shooting, interfaith leaders and allies crowded vigils to stand in solidarity with the San Diego Muslim community. |
 | (RNS) — The festival commemorates when God gave the Torah, and with it, both spiritual freedom and responsibility, to the Israelites on Mount Sinai, a pivotal moment in the Jewish story. Many converts see Shavuot as particularly personal — a reminder that embracing Judaism is a daily choice. |
 | NEW YORK (RNS) — Jones is stepping down as president of Union Theological Seminary after 18 years. Her tenure has been defined by difficult, sometimes unpopular decisions that helped stabilize the institution even as mainline Protestantism declines. |
Opinion | (RNS) — Comedians are doing some of the most serious moral work in America right now. |
 | (RNS) — Few of our preachers use their pulpits to call for an end to war, often because they are afraid to do so. |
ICYMI | (RNS) — Sister Teresa Groth runs Francisco Homes, a housing program for formerly incarcerated men, including immigrants facing deportation. |
 | VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV says Vatican finances do not keep him up at night. In his first year, rising Vatican bank income and renewed interest from American Catholic donors suggest he may have reason for calm. |
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