Jonathan Woodward
Jonathan Woodward is the podcast producer at Religion News Service.
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RNS Morning Report: Easter Online; Religious Exemptions by State; Gathered Worship ‘Abstinence’
By Jonathan Woodward — April 10, 2020
Bible scholar Paul Franklyn helps lead the Friendship Sunday School class of Belmont United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, by videoconference March 15, 2020, after church leadership encouraged people to worship from home in response to the coronavirus. Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News
RNS Morning Report: Biography of Haggadah; Rev. Wesley Discusses Sabbatical; Faith Leader Resources
By Jonathan Woodward — April 9, 2020
Author Vanessa Ochs. Courtesy photo by Dan Addison/UVA
RNS Morning Report: Earth Seders; MuslimGirl Founder Congressional Run; Christ Family Chapel
By Jonathan Woodward — April 8, 2020
An image from “The Promise of the Land: A Passover Haggadah” by Rabbi Ellen Bernstein. Art by Galia Goodman
RNS Morning Report: Churches Helping Churches Initiative; Faith Not Fear; Father Martin on Pandemic
By Jonathan Woodward — April 7, 2020
A man raises his hand during worship. Photo by Luis Quintero/Pexels/Creative Commons
RNS Morning Report: Monks Donate Caskets; Worship Amid Pandemic Debates; LaunchGood Fund
By Jonathan Woodward — April 6, 2020
Monks make cremation urns at New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa. Photo by Mark Hirsch
God in the time of coronavirus, with Father James Martin, S.J.
By Jonathan Woodward — April 3, 2020
Father James Martin, S.J. recently wrote a short piece that ran in The New York Times entitled, “Where is God in a Pandemic.” Like many others, Beliefs host Bill Baker wanted to know what Martin would say to him – and to all of us – during a moment of universal human suffering. Baker and […]
RNS Morning Report: Faith in Sicily; Denouncing Anti-Asian Racism; Chaitra Navaratri During Lockdown
By Jonathan Woodward — April 3, 2020
Images of St. Rosalia, wearing a face mask, are projected onto buildings in Palermo, Sicily, in southern Italy. Photo courtesy of Ex Voto Collective Palermo
RNS Morning Report: Yoga in Alabama Schools; Florida Religious Services Order; Central Park Hospital
By Jonathan Woodward — April 2, 2020
Students work on yoga postures during “mindful studies” class at Wilson High School in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 1, 2014.(AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)
RNS Morning Report: McMillions Documentary; Hobby Lobby Clarifies Leave Policy; Rev. Marshall Resigns
By Jonathan Woodward — April 1, 2020
Evidence exhibits from the HBO documentary series “McMillions.” Photo courtesy of HBO
RNS Morning Report: Field Hospital in Central Park; Church Donations Down; Florida Pastor Arrested
By Jonathan Woodward — March 31, 2020
A Samaritan’s Purse crew works on building an emergency field hospital equipped with a respiratory unit in New York’s Central Park, across from the Mount Sinai Hospital, Sunday, March 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
RNS Morning Report: Rev. Chitwood on Stimulus Bill; Startup Churches at Risk; Rev. Lowery Dies
By Jonathan Woodward — March 30, 2020
Dr. Michael Chitwood’s recent Tweets about the stimulus package. Screengrabs.
Ethics for humans: Christine Firer Hinze
By Jonathan Woodward — March 27, 2020
This week on Beliefs, the team asks Professor Christine Firer Hinze if ethics occur naturally or emerge through faith. Hinze is a professor of Christian Ethics at Fordham University, as well as the director of the Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies.
RNS Morning Report: Holy Land Houses of Worship Close; Funeral Arrangements; COVID-19 Church Online Summit
By Jonathan Woodward — March 27, 2020
Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on March 15, 2020. Israel imposed sweeping travel and quarantine measures more than a week before, but coronavirus cases have continued to rise. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
RNS Morning Report: Decarceration Efforts; Prisoners During Coronavirus; National Cathedral Masks
By Jonathan Woodward — March 26, 2020
An image of Anne Frank is projected with a message near the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston on March 22, 2020, by the activist group Never Again Action. Photo courtesy of Never Again Action
RNS Morning Report: Pastor Carl Lentz; White House Faith Leader Outreach; SBC Annual Meeting
By Jonathan Woodward — March 25, 2020
In this Oct. 23, 2017, photo, Carl Lentz, a pastor who ministers to thousands at his Hillsong Church in New York, appears during an interview, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
