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Inside the fraught effort to create a Christian nationalist internet

By Jack Jenkins

(RNS) — Booted from mainstream social media websites, outraged Christian nationalists are creating some of their own.

Voting rights demonstration leads to faith leaders’ arrests outside White House

By Jack Jenkins

North Park University faculty say president created a ‘toxic climate’ on race

By Yonat Shimron

Can anyone lead the Southern Baptist Convention forward?

By Bob Smietana

Study: Most US Catholic bishops kept silent on Francis’ climate change push

By Daniel R. DiLeo

(RNS) — Conservatism appears to have influenced bishops’ treatment of climate change.

A Jewish case for not liking ‘The Sopranos’

By Jeffrey Salkin

(RNS) — When it comes to media stereotypes, how did we let this one have a free pass?

7 things white Christians can do to address white supremacy at church

By Robert P. Jones

(RNS) — Simply start somewhere, and start somewhere local.

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Young Hindus get creative with home temples in cramped apartments

At Durga Puja, Hindus wrestle with the West’s sexualized destroyer

Families of different faiths swap houses, lives in Ava DuVernay’s ‘Home Sweet Home’

American Girl releases doll outfits for Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah celebrations

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Robin Jackson, left, and Jill Biden during a 2019 campaign event at Brookland Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina. Photo via Twitter/@DrBiden

Jill Biden celebrates ‘prayer partner’ who reinvigorated her faith

Worshippers bow in prayer at the Islamic Society of Boston during the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, April 16, 2021, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

New poll reveals how much we presume about Muslim Americans’ politics

Views from the We the People Ride experience along the U.S.-Mexico border. Photo courtesy of Vote Common Good

Border dispatches: Mayor says local crime rate hides citizens’ values

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Climate crisis at forefront of agenda for Parliament of the World’s Religions

Two marble statues of angels are seen in this undated image. A British art collector who bought a pair of 17th century marble angels from a Neapolitan antiques shop two decades ago and had them at his French home has returned the “putti” to Italy’s art police after learning that they had been stolen from a church. In a statement released Tuesday Oct. 19, 2021 Italy’s carabinieri art police said the unnamed collector had tried to resell the angels at an antiques shop in Avignon, France ahead of his planned move from France to Portugal when French art police identified them as possible stolen goods. (Carabinieri for the Protection of Cultural Heritage via AP)

France returns marble angels stolen from Italy church in ’89

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Baptist watchdog flunks Forever 21, praises H&M in annual ‘ethical fashion’ report

Health & Lifestyle

In this Fall 2019 pre-Covid photo, nursing students study in a simulation lab at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Photo by Andy Calvert, courtesy of Calvin University

Calvin University to add school of health with $15 million gift

Faithful wear masks and some wear gloves as they receive Communion at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, June 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Latino Catholics are among the most vaccinated religious groups. Here’s why.

People line up for COVID-19 vaccinations outside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Oklahoma City on Jan. 26, 2021. Photo by J. Wiggins for Concepts Productions/courtesy Ebenezer Baptist Church

The pandemic has helped religion’s reputation. Do religious vaccine resisters put this progress at risk?

Arts & Culture

‘Dune’ novels draw on Islamic motifs and have in turn inspired Muslim artists

Danté Stewart in his office. Photo courtesy of Taja Ambrose, CrownedGold Photography

Christian writer Danté Stewart seeks revelation in Black experience

Brendan Hunt as Coach Beard, left, and Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso in the Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso.” Photo courtesy of Apple TV+

What Ted Lasso could teach clergy

Science & Tech

Pope Francis arrives to meet with the participants to the inter-parliamentary meeting on the COP26 in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope to lawmakers: Climate change requires quick consensus

Christi has run her channel, Christi ASMR, for two years. Courtesy photo

The relaxing and tingly world of Christian ASMR

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Want to regain young people’s trust? Start treating the earth, and life, as sacred

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Rashad Hussain in Geneva in 2011. Photo by Eric Bridiers/US Mission Geneva/Creative Commons

Why the Senate must fast-track Biden’s nominee on religious freedom

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.

Voting rights demonstration leads to faith leaders’ arrests outside White House

North Park University faculty say president created a ‘toxic climate’ on race

Can anyone lead the Southern Baptist Convention forward?

Hate crimes are growing. Faith communities are uniquely positioned to combat them.

Climate crisis at forefront of agenda for Parliament of the World’s Religions

France returns marble angels stolen from Italy church in ’89

Baptist watchdog flunks Forever 21, praises H&M in annual ‘ethical fashion’ report

Mormon kids can’t wear Halloween masks to the trunk-or-treat . . . or can they?

Study: Most US Catholic bishops kept silent on Francis’ climate change push

Inside the fraught effort to create a Christian nationalist internet

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Eight nontheist organizations sponsoring the 2021 secular Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos Secular

Jesus Calling® Podcast awarded international w3 Gold Award for Digital Excellence

HSS USA publishes Annual Report sharing its expanded work in 34 States and 171 Cities