Vermont

The worst college story you’ll read all year

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 15, 2022
You send your kids to college. Everything will be just fine. Really?

Long-hidden synagogue mural gets rehabbed, relocated

By Lisa Rathke — August 16, 2022
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — It's a rare representation of a kind of art that graced wooden synagogues in Europe that were largely destroyed during the Holocaust, experts say.

Priest who balked at COVID-19 precautions removed from Vermont parish

By Associated Press — March 14, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Williams' bishop determined that “his serious disobedience and disrespect shown to the office of the bishop” merited removal.

US agency: Hospital forced nurse to participate in abortion

By Wilson Ring — August 28, 2019
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The case is the latest in a Trump administration effort to apply federal 'conscience' laws that have been on the books but are rarely enforced.

Mississippi still rules the religiosity rankings

By Lauren Markoe — February 9, 2017
(RNS) And at the bottom for the ninth year in a row: Vermont.

How Sanders’ charitable giving may undermine his central message (COMMENTARY)

By Charles C. Camosy — April 18, 2016
(RNS) Unless we learn more from Sanders, he is a victim of his own critique: He is not paying his fair share.

Bernie Sanders supported religious liberty in menorah dispute

By Mark A. Kellner — February 10, 2016
(RNS) As mayor of Burlington, Vermont, the Democratic candidate defended the erection of a giant menorah on the steps of city hall in the 1980s.

‘Lost’ Jewish mural restored, installed in new home

By Elizabeth Murray — August 4, 2015
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- The 'Lost Shul' mural is part of a tradition of wall paintings in Eastern Europe that was almost entirely obliterated during the Holocaust by the Nazis.

Amish-Mennonite pastor convicted of abetting kidnapping

By Lauren Markoe — August 15, 2012

(RNS) A Vermont jury found an Amish-Mennonite pastor guilty Tuesday (Aug. 14) of abetting an international kidnapping to keep a child from her lesbian parent. By Lauren Markoe. 

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