Opinion
United Methodists condemning Christian nationalism should address their complicity
By Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood — May 1, 2024
(RNS) — The thinning of the UMC’s conservative ranks makes this week’s conference a perfect time to address the issue.
The biblical character who goes ‘down the rabbit hole’ into an alternate reality
By Ryan M. Armstrong — May 1, 2024
For the ancient Maya, cracked mirrors were a path to the world beyond
By James L. Fitzsimmons — May 1, 2024
Omar Suleiman
Islam Beyond Phobia
Karen Swallow Prior
One Eye Squinted
Jana Riess
Flunking Sainthood
Candice Marie Benbow
Faithfully Feminist
Simran Jeet Singh
Articles of Faith
Phyllis Zagano
Just Catholic
Charles C. Camosy
Purple Catholicism
Jeffrey Salkin
Martini Judaism
Mark Silk
Spiritual Politics
Khyati Joshi
Living Religion
Jonathan Merritt
On Faith and Culture
Andre Henry
Written in Protest
Thomas Reese
Signs of the Times
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What we have to learn from students leading the charge for justice
By Serene Jones — April 30, 2024
(RNS) — We need to be the kind of faith and public leaders we want our students to become.
Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle
By Robert P. Jones — April 30, 2024
(RNS) — The overlooked religious middle is poised to play an outsized role in the 2024 presidential contest.
Despair in the Holy Land
By Thomas Reese — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — We have to persevere for peace and have hope because the alternative is too terrible to imagine.
What didn’t happen on Passover?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — It is not only history. Read to the end for my message to the anti-Israel crowd.
Can secular health care institutions be trusted to make a moral brain death policy?
By Charles C. Camosy — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — A lack of consensus on the definition of ‘brain death’ has led to a default policy that declares living people dead.
In ‘Infinite Dignity,’ the Vatican defends people, not politics
By Phyllis Zagano — April 26, 2024
(RNS) — Tackling matters that are the topic of political debates today, the document drew more controversy than intended.
‘Oppenheimer’ may have ignored our own nuclear victims. Congress should not.
By Bridget Moix — April 26, 2024
(RNS) — The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expires in June. It doesn’t have to.
A Jan. 6 antisemite is sent to prison. What do the presidential candidates say?
By Mark Silk — April 25, 2024
(RNS) — One condemns antisemitism. The other holds former Proud Boys up as victims.
Resisting our ‘new dark age’
By Karen Swallow Prior — April 25, 2024
(RNS) — In a time of information excess, the need of the moment is more love and more rest.
What’s happening at Columbia is monumental
By Omar Suleiman — April 24, 2024
(RNS) — Columbia’s students have a long history of protesting injustice — which the school has regretted squashing in the past. Will it make the same mistake?
Columbia University is another Charlottesville
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 24, 2024
(RNS) — Columbia University protests are like Charlottesville’s ‘Unite the Right’ rally: Discuss. Welcome to an academic disgrace.
Gender-nonconforming ancient Romans found refuge in community dedicated to goddess Cybele
By Tina Chronopoulos — April 24, 2024
(The Conversation) — In ancient Rome, male followers of the goddess Cybele, known as Galli, some of whom surgically removed their testicles, were often considered feminine.
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