Jerome Socolovsky
Jerome Socolovsky is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Jerome Socolovsky
The Slingshot: Methodist muddle; Medina arrests; Nigerian Jewish tribe?
By Jerome Socolovsky and Kimberly Winston — May 2, 2017
Conservative UMC group mulls split amid LGBTQ struggle. Dozens detained for bombing Prophet Muhammad’s mosque. The Igbo as a Lost Tribe of Israel.
The Slingshot: Trump gets it right; Methodist LGBT redux; Pope TED
By Jerome Socolovsky and Kimberly Winston — April 26, 2017
Survivors praise Holocaust speech but still unsure about Trump. UMC tries to resolve split again. Francis makes a virtual appearance in Vancouver.
The Slingshot: Sinai trembles; Georgetown apologizes; Miniatures awe
By Jerome Socolovsky and Kimberly Winston — April 19, 2017
ISIS claims shooting of policeman at St. Catherine’s Monastery. Descendants of slaves gather at university that benefited from 1838 sale of hundreds of them. A glimpse of faith preserved 500 years in a wooden ball the size of a peach.
The Slingshot: Copt-splaining; Spicer again; Overbooked ethics
By Jerome Socolovsky and Kimberly Winston — April 12, 2017
Copts are in the news again as victims of violence. White House spokesman’s apology over Hitler remarks accepted by Israeli official. An ejected airline passenger and the morality of capitalism.
In unusual omission, no Trump-pope meeting planned during Italy G-7
By Jerome Socolovsky — April 11, 2017
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Trump, who Francis suggested was "not Christian" if he wanted a wall on the Mexican border, is due in Sicily on May 26-27 for a meeting of the heads of the world's richest nations.
Pope visit to Egypt to go ahead despite blasts but security big concern
By Jerome Socolovsky — April 10, 2017
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Diplomats and Vatican sources cautioned that the trip could be put in jeopardy or parts of it changed if the security situation worsened.
The Slingshot: LDS succession; Segregation in Sweden; U.S. papal plot
By Jerome Socolovsky — April 5, 2017
Mormon leader taken ill. Gender-segregated school bus sparks Swedish outrage. N.J. teen allegedly planned to kill Pope Francis during 2015 visit.
A closer look at ‘The Benedict Option’ yields suggestions worth considering
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 31, 2017
(RNS) I still find Rod Dreher's assessment of Christian influence too gloomy. But he makes a fairly strong, if unfashionable, case for medieval ways of thinking that are arguably at least as enlightened as our own.
The AIPAC drinking game
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 30, 2017
The proverbial elephant in the room: Is there a growing divide between American Jews and Israel? And if so, why?
The Slingshot: Jehovah’s Russian Witnesses; Iceland’s pagans; America’s Second Lady
By Jerome Socolovsky and Kimberly Winston — March 30, 2017
Russian court expected to ban American millenarian group. Thor enjoys a comeback after 1000 years. The conservative evangelical married to the vice president.
Russell Moore faces a challenging road ahead
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 24, 2017
(RNS) Although his apology for being 'unnecessarily harsh' toward Trump supporters was accepted by the Southern Baptist Convention's top brass, the public voice of America's largest denomination still faces a groundswell of grass-roots discontent.
Keep religious conservatives involved in American life
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 24, 2017
(RNS) Rod Dreher might consider retreating from the secularizing forces of modernity to a more ascetic lifestyle. But he doesn’t need to take the rest of upper-middle-class white Christianity with him.
The Slingshot: Princeton speaker is panned; Trump defends a mosque; Putin is not an anti-Semite
By Jerome Socolovsky and Kimberly Winston — March 22, 2017
Tim Keller’s appearance is criticized because of his denomination’s anti-LGBTQ stance. The administration enforces a land-use rule that benefits a Virginia Muslim community. Putin is a Russian anomaly.
Pope to visit war and famine hit South Sudan in October — bishop
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 21, 2017
ROME (Reuters) Pope Francis will visit South Sudan in October if the security situation in the country stricken by civil war and famine does not worsen, a bishop from the country said.
The Slingshot: Moore’s friends; Mother Divine; Rotterdam
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 15, 2017
The SBC’s post-election soul searching revolves around Russell Moore. The “Spotless Virgin Bride” dies. A multicultural Dutch city with a Muslim mayor brims with Islamophobia.
