religion
When it comes to building trust, belonging beats belief, study finds
By Bob Smietana — January 28, 2021
(RNS) — A new study found that those who belong to a religious group or go to services have higher levels of trust than those who have stronger individual belief.
Healing and unity? Not yet
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 19, 2021
(RNS) — There is such a thing as ‘cheap grace.’ This is precisely not the time for it.
President Trump is a religious leader
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 17, 2020
(RNS) — Trumpism, like other bad religions, denies science, identifies dark forces and denies reality.
The ‘Squad’ returns: 5 faith facts about the House’s firebrand group
By Bob Smietana — November 4, 2020
(RNS) — The Squad — four women of faith — represents the often-overlooked side of religion and politicians.
Thou shalt not be comfortable
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 8, 2020
In our time, the best life goal is to be maladjusted.
In this art gallery, conversations about religion and spirituality are welcome
By Alejandra Molina — December 17, 2019
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Bridge Projects is a new gallery space that seeks to link art with spiritual and religious traditions.
What do you get the internet for its birthday?
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 12, 2019
Can we use the Internet to explain God to kids?
African cosmologies: spiritual reflections on the ‘Black Panther’ movie
By Yolanda Pierce — February 19, 2018
(RNS) — Within most African religious worldviews, everything is a part of the spiritual world and so physical combat or clothing or body modification are all infused with sacred resonance. (Commentary)
Texas city council members censure colleague over anti-Islam Facebook post
By Delta Systems — February 18, 2018
PLANO, Tex. (RNS) — The post featured a student in a hijab and these words: 'Share if you think Trump should ban Islam in American schools.'
Start 2018 with these six religion podcasts
By Aysha Khan — January 5, 2018
(RNS) — Podcasts for the spiritually curious abound. Here is a selection for people of faiths — and even those who are done with it.
Tom Brady, Alex Guerrero and Apocalypse Meow — when weird belief turns harmful
By Bob Smietana — January 4, 2018
(RNS) — A few years ago I went to the grocery store and ran into some cultists.
Looking back with lament, and forward with hope
By Richard Mouw — January 2, 2018
(RNS) — At present many of the most hopeful occurrences of 2017 are likely hidden from our view.
Preaching about guns? Get political!
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 5, 2017
Preachers can talk about the real world. Or, they can be irrelevant. You choose what kind of religion you want.
Sociologist Rodney Stark gets cranky about religion
By Jonathan Merritt — September 18, 2017
(RNS) — The man who defended the Crusades talks about the definition of religion, the nature of atheism and the benefit of heresy.
‘The Vietnam Years’: How the conflict ripped the nation’s religious fabric
By Don Lattin — September 8, 2017
(RNS) — America is about to relive the horror and deep divisions spawned by the U.S. war in Vietnam — convulsions that also tore apart the nation’s religious fabric and still echo across the political and cultural landscape.
