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Latino pastors look to refit preaching and pastoral care to trauma of mass deportations

Aleja Hertzler-McCain

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In ACNA’s upside-down world, abuse survivors are considered the problem

Abbi Nye

Jen Hatmaker on ditching evangelical scripts: ‘That system robbed us all’

Roxanne Stone and Katelyn Beaty

Tree of Life rabbi and Mother Emanuel pastor: 7 years of a friendship forged in tragedy

FILE - Kris Kepler, of Pittsburgh, attends a commemoration ceremony, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, in Schenley Park in memory of the 11 worshippers killed four years ago when a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Bob Smietana

(RNS) — A few days after the 2018 shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers got an email from the Rev. Eric Manning of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston — offering help and a listening ear. The two men say their friendship shows that love and kindness are more powerful than hate.

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‘The Lost Mary’ breaks from centuries of mythmaking around the Virgin Mary

Fiona André

Samaritan’s Purse to play a larger role in Gaza aid distribution

Yonat Shimron

At Bay Area protest, a second pastor is shot by federal agents with a pepper round

Hayden Royster

Opinion

The new religious liberty: Intolerance for all but the few

Marci A. Hamilton

Opinion

In ‘Dilexi te,’ Pope Leo presents early church as exemplar of love and care for poor

Thomas Reese

Jessamyn R. Abel

Japan’s sumo association turns 100 – but the sport’s rituals have a much older role shaping ideas about the country

(The Conversation) — As Japan’s national sport, sumo has shaped perceptions of its culture since the mid-1800s.

Alexander T. Englert

Building a stable ‘abode of thought’: Kant’s rules for virtuous thinking

(The Conversation) — Kant’s 3 rules can offer a helpful check as to whether we are not only living well but thinking well.

Thomas Reese

In ‘Dilexi te,’ Pope Leo presents early church as exemplar of love and care for poor

(RNS) — In Scripture and in the history of the church, the poor are where we encounter God, the pope writes in his 'Dilexi Te.'

Sermons urge youth to take part in public affairs in Morocco after wave of protests

Akram Oubachir

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The sermon, heard in mosques across the kingdom Friday, came after Morocco was shaken by an unprecedented and deadly youth uprising in recent weeks that demanded better social and economic conditions.

Immigration crackdown stokes fear and solidarity at a Catholic church in DC

Luis Andres Henao

WASHINGTON (AP) — Church leaders say more than 40 members of their parish have been detained, deported or both since federal law enforcement stepped up their deployment in August.

An Indigenous approach shows how changing the clocks for daylight saving time runs counter to human nature – and nature itself

Rachelle Wilson Tollemar

(The Conversation) — While the rest of nature rises and slumbers to lunar and solar cycles, humans work and sleep to the resetting of their artificial clocks.

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