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‘Blessed’: Frederick Haynes, pastor and candidate, on his politics, faith and health

Adelle M. Banks

Opinion

Faith is back in Democratic politics

Jim Wallis

This historic divinity school is offering the first doctoral degree in ‘AI and Moral Agency’

Yonat Shimron

Booted from evangelicalism, a progressive, ‘post-evangelical’ church blooms in Texas

Ushers Carla and Stuart Hays welcome attendees to Restore Austin in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, June 7, 2026. (RNS photo/Angela Wang)

Kathryn Post

AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — Led by Zach Lambert, Restore church is part of a small but growing countertrend.

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Released Texas pastors say immigration agents threatened family separation

Aleja Hertzler-McCain

Detained pastor couple had religious worker visas, Assemblies of God leaders say

Aleja Hertzler-McCain

Long overlooked and newly energized, Black Buddhist studies challenges US Buddhist history

Chloe Landen

Opinion

New York rabbi: Why I lied to my mom when she asked if I felt safe

Brad Hirschfield

Opinion

One year later, people of faith should reckon with Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Bridget Moix

Thomas Varacalli

How classical education can be an antidote to AI

(RNS) — AI is more likely to harm education than help it. Classical education will become ever more relevant.

Gina Perez

‘Sanctuary people’ redefine what it means to protect immigrants in uncertain times

(The Conversation) — Many faith groups supporting immigrants root their mission in the idea of ‘accompaniment,’ which springs from Catholic social teaching.

Thomas Reese

Pope Leo’s Eucharistic answer to the age of AI

(RNS) — 'The Eucharist opens us to justice and sharing, with a preferential concern for those who are burdened by poverty or marginalization,' the pope writes.

Federal judge dismisses a lawsuit over makeup of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission

Peter Smith

(AP) — Judge John P. Cronan said that although a federal law requires that advisory commissions have a balance of viewpoints, it didn't specify how this should be done.

NYC stabbings suspect arrested on hate crime charges in both attacks

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Raul Morales, 51, allegedly yelled the Arabic phrase “Allahu akbar” while attacking the two men Thursday on Manhattan's Upper West Side, according to police accounts of what witnesses told them.

Orthodox monks are the first to live and pray at a monastery in Estonia for 80 years

Kostya Manenkov

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Founded last year in one of Europe’s most secular societies, the Kirikla Orthodox Monastery is the first monastery the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church has established in decades.

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Inside the parish-led fight against a $123M ICE facility in Texas

Raphael Warnock says the US is a freedom train. People need to get on it.

‘It really did take me back to after 9/11’: How Islamophobia roiled a Texas election