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Twisting the cross: The deadly theology of white supremacy
By Lauren Markoe — August 28, 2017
(RNS) — 'A symbol of love can become a weapon. The icon of redemption can become an instrument of terror,' writes Shane Claiborne.
Is this unearthed fishing village the birthplace of three of Jesus’ apostles?
By Jerome Socolovsky — August 7, 2017
(RNS) — For decades archaeologists have searched for the fishing village where apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip lived.
Eugene Peterson on Donald Trump and the state of American Christianity
By Jonathan Merritt — July 11, 2017
The 84-year-old bestselling author says, "Donald Trump is the enemy" and "megachurches are not churches."
This Vatican adviser is moving Catholics toward LGBT inclusion
By Jonathan Merritt — June 6, 2017
(RNS) James Martin says LGBT people are treated like lepers in the Catholic Church, and it's time for this to change.
Jesus and the ordination of women
By Roger Vermalen Karban — April 27, 2017
(RNS) One of the Catholic Church’s traditional arguments against the priestly ordination of women revolves around Jesus of Nazareth being a man. But the authors of the Christian Scriptures would never have understood that logic.
Restoration work completed on Jesus tomb site in Jerusalem
By Reuters — March 21, 2017
JERUSALEM (Reuters) A team of scientists and restorers has worked for the past nine months at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and focused on a small structure above the burial place.
At life’s end, a rare point of agreement
By Jeffrey Weiss — March 20, 2017
(RNS) I like thinking that there may be a Higher Justification for me trying to continue to accomplish some things that will be considered good when I’m gone.
Extreme vetting for heaven?
By Mark Silk — February 24, 2017
(RNS) It's about doing enough for the least of these.
Exhibit explores Israeli artists’ complex relationship with Jesus
By Noga Tarnopolsky — February 16, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) 'Behold the Man: Jesus in Israeli Art' subverts the idea that Christian art is a tool of religious devotion and suggests Christian symbols are central to Western art and, by necessity, to Israeli art.
Chaplain Black gave us a new piece of our oral history
By Jerry Pattengale — February 5, 2017
(RNS) With his Darius Rucker voice, Martin Luther King Jr. prose, G.K. Chesterton depth and Billy Graham anointing, the Senate chaplain provoked our minds and prodded our emotions.
Author: Jesus didn’t believe in ‘original sin’ and neither should we
By Jonathan Merritt — January 13, 2017
One theologian says that Jesus didn't believe this doctrine, and we shouldn't either.
Be honest about what you’re celebrating Dec. 25
By Jacob Lupfer — December 23, 2016
(RNS) It’s one thing to take no note of Jesus’ coming, but it seems to me an egregious dishonor to pretend that we have.
Why Christmas is radical
By John Gehring — December 22, 2016
(RNS) It’s tempting to turn Christmas into a safe holiday that asks little of us. But that would ignore the prophetic, subversive life of Jesus, writes John Gehring.
At Standing Rock, God heard our cries for justice
By Shane Claiborne — December 5, 2016
(RNS) Whatever their religious traditions, the people who stood united in prayer as the news of victory came in Sunday witnessed the power of God, writes Shane Claiborne.
On Nov. 9, we are all Zacchaeus
By Randy Hollerith — November 8, 2016
(RNS) Are we bold enough to climb above the crowd and look beyond the stark rhetoric and unbending ideologies that dominate our political landscape?
