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guest is an author at Religion News Service.
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Rejecting fear, despair to confront climate crisis as people of faith
By guest — September 1, 2016
(RNS) There is very little in today’s culture to help us stomach this truth of the climate crisis. Yet my faith explicitly prohibits fear.
Son had 36 bruises; mom quoted Bible as defense
By guest — September 1, 2016
INDIANAPOLIS -- She said her choice of discipline for her 7-year-old son came straight from her evangelical Christian beliefs.
Christian woman told to remove headscarf for driver’s license
By guest — August 30, 2016
(Reuters) The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit on her behalf.
UN rights office urges French towns to repeal burkini bans
By guest — August 30, 2016
(RNS) The bans are a 'stupid reaction' to terrorism that do not improve security and fuel religious intolerance, the UN says.
Today — of all days — remember the disappeared
By guest — August 30, 2016
(RNS) Many around the world have been 'disappeared' for reasons relating to religion. Today is a day set aside to remember them, say two members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
At back-to-school time, a new effort to protect kids bullied for their faith
By guest — August 29, 2016
(RNS) As the school year begins, educators and parents teach tolerance.
Michelle and Hillary: A tale of two Christians
By guest — August 26, 2016
(RNS) The author admires both women for -- in their individual ways -- living out their faith.
An end to a form of modern-day slavery
By guest — August 19, 2016
(RNS) The Justice Department’s move to phase out private federal prisons brings a welcome end to a moral and political crisis that has tested the very foundations of our democracy.
Church confirms Argentine apparitions as ‘supernatural’
By guest — August 15, 2016
SAN NICOLAS DE LOS ARROYOS, Argentina (RNS) Once a month, thousands of devout Catholics descend on this city, where an uneducated resident said she began seeing visions of the Virgin Mary on Sept. 25, 1983.
Listen to what the campaign soundtracks tell us about our spirituality
By guest — August 12, 2016
(RNS) These are now our hymns, psalms, and spiritual songs.
Will the Catholic Church have women deacons?
By guest — August 4, 2016
(RNS) Unlike the issue of the priesthood, there is no long list of papal encyclicals and church councils that would prohibit the ordaining of women deacons.
Francis writes an appeal for mercy in silent visit to Auschwitz
By guest — July 29, 2016
KRAKOW, Poland (RNS) The pontiff spent intense moments in prayer at the infamous concentration camp, then embraced Holocaust survivors and met some who helped Jews persecuted by the Nazis.
The word of the week in Philadelphia: Love
By guest — July 29, 2016
(RNS) “Love” has been taboo in Democratic Party politics for so long. But it's back. Big time.
Planned Parenthood backs off plan to put Mormon phrase on condoms
By guest — July 28, 2016
The pink-and-white wrappers were meant as a playful safe-sex reminder for Latter-day Saints, the organization said, but critics called the idea distasteful.
Bill Clinton’s dangerous assumption
By guest — July 28, 2016
(RNS) In Clinton’s call to action, he tried to distinguish between 'good' Muslims and 'bad' Muslims, and by so doing, pushed the already ostracized group into a well-defined subgroup, separating 'us' and 'them.'
