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How can a denomination based on reconciling differences split over its disagreements?
By David Eagle — April 16, 2024
(RNS) — The United Methodist Church has to stop fracturing over sexuality and learn to live with our differences.
‘Godzilla Minus One’ offers a profound critique of war and American pop culture
By Jim McDermott — November 29, 2023
(RNS) — The lizard god returns as a complex character reflecting his roots in postwar fears of nuclear weapons.
Dorothy Day defied definition. Now the potential saint is the subject of a new film.
By Yonat Shimron — March 4, 2020
(RNS) — The former journalist who founded the Catholic Worker movement was a committed Catholic who gave her life to the cause of the poor, yet also disdained government assistance.
Theologian Miroslav Volf makes a surprising case for one candidate
By Jonathan Merritt — October 5, 2016
Theologian Miroslav Volf makes a surprising case for one candidate.
Funeral for the Rev. Daniel Berrigan held in New York
By Heidi Thompson — May 6, 2016
NEW YORK (RNS) A photo gallery of the Jesuit peace activist's funeral.
Daniel Berrigan, anti-war priest, dies at 94
By David Gibson — May 1, 2016
NEW YORK (RNS) A herald of the Catholic social justice movement, the Jesuit became synonymous with peace activism in the Vietnam era and beyond.
Mennonites apologize for history of sex abuse following theologian John Howard Yoder scandal
By Rich Preheim — July 6, 2015
(RNS) Mennonites grapple with a paradox: One of the most influential shapers of the idea of Christian pacifism and nonviolence repeatedly committed acts of sexual violence.
ANALYSIS: Is ‘Just War’ doctrine another victim of the Syrian conflict?
By David Gibson — September 11, 2013
(RNS) The central problem is not that the just war doctrine is being dismissed or condemned, but that both sides in the debate over Syria are citing just war theory, but are reaching diametrically opposed conclusions.
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