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Taco trucks and voter guides boost political profiles of faith communities at the margins

By Alejandra Molina

(RNS) — Civic engagement, said one activist, humanizes minority faith groups in the eyes of the rest of the electorate.

Hillsong Church announces an Atlanta location and its first African American lead pastors

By Emily McFarlan Miller

Three church coalitions in the Deep South partner to urge racial reconciliation — and justice

By Adelle M. Banks

Poll chaplains plan to bring a ‘prayerful presence’ to precincts this Election Day

By Emily McFarlan Miller

Opinion

55 years ago, a cardinal’s ‘special reverence’ for the Jews redeemed ‘Nostra Aetate’

By A. James Rudin

(RNS) — The proclamation sparked a systematic effort by the Catholic Church to transform its past bitter relationships with Jews and Judaism.

The nondenominational Donald

By Mark Silk

(RNS) — The president discovers that his Presbyterianism was so 20th century.

‘Borat’ is dead serious

By Jeffrey Salkin

(RNS) — Forget, for a moment, about the banality of evil. There is also a banality of goodness, and Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie finds it, despite itself.

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Brandeis University stands by caste-bias ban despite pushback from Hindu activists

Hindu nationalists see Muslim jihad everywhere in India

In the midst of deep grief, a scholar writes how Hindu rituals taught her to let go

Why ‘namaste’ has become the perfect pandemic greeting

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1,000-plus faith leaders call for ‘free and fair election’

Sean Feucht’s ‘finale’ worship protest on the National Mall included more politics than usual

Ismaili, Ahmadi Muslims push national voter registration efforts

With rising COVID-19 cases inside the Vatican, pressure mounts for Francis to don a mask

In battleground states, American Jews prefer Biden over Trump by a wide margin

Pope Francis voices support of civil unions for LGBTQ couples in new documentary

Health & Lifestyle

North Carolina Pentecostal church ordered to close after coronavirus outbreak

My child with Down syndrome is not a political statement — and neither is Amy Coney Barrett’s

In Disney’s ‘Clouds,’ Justin Baldoni makes a teen cancer movie about joy

Petition for a new American Girl doll asks popular toy company to tell the modern refugee story

Former CCM editor and Christian music publicist Jay Swartzendruber dies at 52

Lecrae on growing uncomfortable with white evangelicalism and finding ‘Restoration’

Faith and politics mix to drive evangelical Christians’ climate change denial

John MacArthur claimed there is ‘no pandemic.’ He was politicizing science, experts say

2,500 evangelicals sign pandemic statement warning: Don’t ignore science

Goldziher Prize Expanding for 2019

Germany’s ‘LutherCountry’ gears up for Reformation 500th anniversary

Film series helps seminary students understand scientific thinking

Hillsong Church announces an Atlanta location and its first African American lead pastors

55 years ago, a cardinal’s ‘special reverence’ for the Jews redeemed ‘Nostra Aetate’

Spiritual Politics

The nondenominational Donald

Taco trucks and voter guides boost political profiles of faith communities at the margins

For Mormons in a faith crisis, the Gospel Topics essays try to answer the hard questions

Black Protestants

Three church coalitions in the Deep South partner to urge racial reconciliation — and justice

Martini Judaism

‘Borat’ is dead serious

Against the darkness: Remembering Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life shooting

Poll chaplains plan to bring a ‘prayerful presence’ to precincts this Election Day

With rising COVID-19 cases inside the Vatican, pressure mounts for Francis to don a mask

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