Andrew Schwartz covers religion for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. His reporting, primarily on labor and political movements, has appeared in The New Republic, Mother Jones, In These Times, High Country News, Dissent, The Baffler, and on NPR member stations. He previously worked as a general assignment reporter with the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, a local newspaper in Washington State.
In what backers say is a first-in-the nation measure, Tennessee will restrict big banks and insurers from refusing service to any client on the basis of a "soc…
November will be Christian Heritage Month in Tennessee under a measure that earned the endorsement of Gov. Bill Lee on Monday.
The Children's Holocaust Memorial at Whitwell Middle School has been celebrated in part for its unlikely location in a rural Tennessee town.
A film depicting the origins of the Seventh-day Adventist movement premiered in theaters this week. The Chattanooga-area producer behind the film said it carri…
The Bible and nine other texts will be enshrined as official state books of Tennessee through a measure signed into law this week by Gov. Bill Lee, bolstering …
Chattanooga businessman Jonathan Frost is subject to a nearly $6 million court judgment after a company he co-owned, the Well Fund, accused him of fraud.
Praying "Average Joe" Kennedy, the former Washington state public high school football coach whose on-field prayer received the blessing of the U.S. Supreme Co…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee last week signed two bills into law that seek to smooth the fostering or adoption process for prospective parents who, for religious or…
Five places to pawn items in Chattanooga.
He proposed a final stroll around downtown, he recalled, before they packed up to return home to Florida. Bundled in monochrome dark green, his young child ran…
