Jonathan Woodward
Jonathan Woodward is the podcast producer at Religion News Service.
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RNS Morning Report: The Mask Project; Film Tribute to Ahmaud Arbery; Interfaith Abrahamic House
By Jonathan Woodward — May 19, 2020
Maria helps produce face masks for The Mask Project, in Phoenix, on May 7, 2020. Photo by Eddie Chavez Calderon
RNS Morning Report: Mohler on Slavery Comment; UMC Conference Postponed; Congregational Singing
By Jonathan Woodward — May 18, 2020
R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, speaks with the press on Oct. 5, 2015, in Louisville, Kentucky. Photo by Emil Handke, courtesy of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
The ritual of remains
By Jonathan Woodward — May 15, 2020
Many of us have certain beliefs about where our soul goes when we die. What remains behind is just that – remains. How do we honor the body of the person we used to know? From earth, to water, and even to the sky, delivering the body back to dust contains deep ritual for many […]
RNS Morning Report: Q Ideas Talks on COVID-19; URJ Staff Cuts; Book on Female Buddha of Tibet
By Jonathan Woodward — May 15, 2020
From left, Gabe Lyons, Rebekah Lyons and Josh Axe, in an image posted on Rebekah Lyons’ Instagram.
RNS Morning Report: Resistance to Reopening; Nicaragua COVID-19 Response Criticized; Jimmie Gardner
By Jonathan Woodward — May 14, 2020
The Rev. William Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, speaks on the National Mall, June 23, 2018. Fellow co-chair the Rev. Liz Theoharis stands on the right. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks
RNS Morning Report: CA Pentecost Reopening Push; Sunday School at Home; Q&A with Rev. Graham
By Jonathan Woodward — May 13, 2020
Pastor Dan Carroll speaks during a Church United news conference at Water of Life Community Church in Fontana, California, on May 7, 2020. Video screengrab via Church United
RNS Morning Report: Little Richard & Religion; Imam Released from Prison; Bishop Funds Research
By Jonathan Woodward — May 12, 2020
In this Aug. 19, 2004, file photo, Little Richard performs at Westbury Music Fair in Westbury, N.Y. Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock-n-roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, died Saturday, May 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)
RNS Morning Report: Friends Mourn Darrin Patrick; Uighur Mothers; Jewish Summer Camps Cancelled
By Jonathan Woodward — May 11, 2020
Pastor Darrin Patrick. Photo courtesy of Seacoast Church
America leans in to faith
By Jonathan Woodward — May 8, 2020
Often, to understand who we are, we turn to data points — and to the statisticians — to help us understand the world around us and the people who inhabit it. This week on Beliefs, we are joined by Greg Smith, who is Associate Director of Research at Pew Research Center. Smith helps to coordinate the […]
RNS Morning Report: Malaysian Buddhist Vesak; NJ Man Accused of Assault; Army Chaplain Controversy
By Jonathan Woodward — May 8, 2020
Buddhist monks praying on Vesak Day are streamed on social media by a volunteer at the Buddhist Maha Vihara temple in Kuala Lumpur on May 7, 2020. RNS photo by Alexandra Radu
RNS Morning Report: Uighur Father Surfaces; Greg Zanis Dies; National Day of Prayer Online
By Jonathan Woodward — May 7, 2020
Samira Imin during an interview in Boston on Feb. 9, 2020. RNS photo by Aysha Khan
RNS Morning Report: Vatican Aids Displaced People; Torah Unites NC Synagogue; Author Kaitlin Curtice
By Jonathan Woodward — May 6, 2020
In this photo taken March 26, 2020, residents live in crowded conditions in the Sayidka camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia. The country has a small number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus so far, but residents of the camp, who have already fled drought and violence from the Islamist al-Shabab militant […]
RNS Morning Report: Rachel Held Evans’ Legacy; American Atheists Report; Field Hospital Closure
By Jonathan Woodward — May 5, 2020
Author Rachel Held Evans. Courtesy photo
RNS Morning Report: Churches Weigh Reopening; ‘Trump Bump’ Ends; Singer Charles Billingsley
By Jonathan Woodward — May 4, 2020
Pastor Bill Bailey preaches to his congregation during a drive-in Easter service at the Happy Gospel Center Church in Bradenton, Florida, Sunday, April 12, 2020. As states begin to end lockdowns, churches are figuring out what that means for them. Hundreds of pastors joined a video conference call organized by the Florida Family Policy Council […]
Progressive faith and politics
By Jonathan Woodward — May 1, 2020
For decades, the political influence of faith has been seen in the might and the dominance of the Religious Right. A new book from Religion News Service national reporter Jack Jenkins called “American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country,” charts the rise of the so-called Religious Left. Beliefs host Bill Baker and producer Jay […]
