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J. Dana Trent turns her drug-dealing childhood into a podcast about poverty and faith

By Yonat Shimron

(RNS) — ‘Breaking Good,’ a four-part podcast, tells a complex story of a dysfunctional churchgoing family living in a fading railroad town beset by poverty, addiction and mental illness.

The Sunday Assembly hopes to organize a godless future. It’s not easy.

By Bob Smietana

Local Indigenous groups worry Bears Ears Monument will limit access to ritual space

By Joseph Hammond

How Hindu chaplains went from anomaly to necessity

By Kathryn Post

Ken Burns portrays the multitudes of Muhammad Ali

By Eboo Patel

(RNS) — A new PBS documentary shows how religion can be a machinery for improvement.

Suicide prevention for our youth is doable: We must act now

By Glen Bloomstrom

(RNS) — September is National Suicide Prevention Month. And there is no better time for parents, youth leaders, community leaders and clergy to take the step to be trained in suicide prevention measures.

Gen Z is keeping the faith. Just don’t expect to see them at worship.

By Josh Packard, Casper ter Kuile

(RNS) — Young people’s trust in religious institutions is low, but trust in relationships with religious people is still extremely high.

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Albert Raboteau, expert on African American religious history, dead at 78

German cardinal takes a break after report details failures in handling sex abuse cases

Pope keeps German archbishop criticized over abuse scandal

After months of protests, Poor People’s Campaign requests meeting with Biden

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Christianity

Members of Young Evangelicals for Climate Action bow their heads in prayer during an event. YECA is holding an event this weekend to urge action on climate change. Photo courtesy of YECA

Young evangelicals to host Capitol Hill rally for climate action

Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, center, and other CAIR representatives and Uyghur human rights organizations hold a news conference at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 16, 2021, to announce their boycott of the hotel chain. Photo courtesy of CAIR

Muslim groups boycott Hilton over bulldozed Xinjiang mosque

The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building, Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)

White Christian nationalism found fertile soil in post-9/11 America

World

In this Sept. 1, 2021, file photo, Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On Sept. 18, 2021, Francis issued a video message to Central and Eastern European bishops urging them to listen to survivors of clergy sexual abuse and consider them partners in reforming the Catholic Church. Failure to do so risks its very future, he warned. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)

Pope Francis reins in Catholic movements after flood of abuse cases

The Rev. Joseph Ntombura, with microphone, presiding bishop of the Methodist Church in Kenya, prays over former Nairobi Gov. Evans Kidero, left, in November 2015. RNS photo by Fredrick Nzwili

Kenyan Methodists defy ban on campaigning at church, saying ‘humans are political’

People listen to Pope Francis, white figure on stage, during his weekly general audience in Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Sept. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis wants every Catholic to have a say. Why haven’t US Catholics heard about it?

Health & Lifestyle

In this aerial photo is an abandoned almond orchard in Newman, California, on July 20, 2021. California’s deepening drought threatens its $6 billion almond industry, which produces about 80% of the world’s almonds. As water becomes scarce and expensive, some growers have stopped irrigating their orchards and plan to tear them out years earlier than planned. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

Pray.com supports family farms hit by historic droughts

President Russell M. Nelson receives the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 19, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Ⓒ2021 by Intellectual Reserve Inc. All rights reserved.

We owe it to the vulnerable to get vaccinated

Champing, or church camping, at the Church of All Saints in Langport, Somerset, England. Photo by Joseph Casey

From luxury stays to ‘champing’ in the sanctuary, churches adopt pandemic-era Airbnb models

Arts & Culture

Actor Hamish Linklater as Father Paul in “Midnight Mass.” Photo courtesy of Netflix © 2021

In ‘Midnight Mass,’ there is ungodly horror and there are puritanical Christians

Grace Semler Baldridge, left, and Jon Foreman in separate TikTok videos. Video screengrabs

Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman posts video supporting LGBTQ ‘rights and freedoms’

Tammy Faye Bakker and her then-husband, television evangelist Jim Bakker, talk to their TV audience at their PTL ministry near Fort Mill, S.C., in this Aug. 20, 1986 file photo. (AP Photo/Lou Krasky, file)

Tammy Faye, a double whammy of Christian love, wins in the end

Science & Tech

The four medical students who created AnKing: Nick Flint, from left, Forrest Hamrick, Tyson Burnham and Blake Cowan. Courtesy photo

LDS medical students revolutionize studying in the name of their faith

Jeannie Gaffigan hosts a panel aimed toward vaccine hesitant Catholics on Aug. 31, 2021. Video screen grab

Jeannie Gaffigan hosts panel urging Catholics to get COVID-19 vaccines

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Antisemitic and anti-Muslim content is flourishing on TikTok, report finds

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In this Aug. 19, 2021, file photo, Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, China has seen the realization of long-held hopes for a reduction of the influence of a geopolitical rival in what it considers its backyard. Yet, it is also deeply concerned that the very withdrawal could bring instability to that backyard — Central Asia — and possibly even spill over the border into China itself in its heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

China is quietly using Afghanistan to strengthen its authoritarian agenda

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The Pegasus Project surfaces a new era of oppression for people of faith. Here’s what should be done.

A Hindu priest performs rituals at the Sangam, confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, on the eve of the Maghi Purnima, or the full-moon day, during the annual traditional fair of Magh Mela in Prayagraj, India, Feb. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India can still turn the tide back toward democracy

The Sunday Assembly hopes to organize a godless future. It’s not easy.

Local Indigenous groups worry Bears Ears Monument will limit access to ritual space

How Hindu chaplains went from anomaly to necessity

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PHOTOS OF THE WEEK: Ganesh Chaturthi festivals and clergy at the White House

Illinois passes legislation to allow student athletes to wear hijab without waivers

Albert Raboteau, expert on African American religious history, dead at 78

Ken Burns portrays the multitudes of Muhammad Ali

Suicide prevention for our youth is doable: We must act now

German cardinal takes a break after report details failures in handling sex abuse cases

J. Dana Trent turns her drug-dealing childhood into a podcast about poverty and faith

RNS Press Releases

Newsrooms can hire subsidized local religion beat reporters—Sept. 30 deadline

Church Of God In Christ, Inc. statement on voter suppression efforts

CPJ issues reports on regional impacts of COVID-19 pandemic