Kim Lawton
Kim Lawton is an author at Religion News Service.

Teaching about religion in a children’s museum

Geraldine Brooks’ ‘The Secret Chord’ tells the story of David

Football great Jim Kelly’s faith sustains a family tested by trials

Sikhs hopeful on anniversary of shooting

Bobby McFerrin: Praying as he sings

50 years later, recalling the young ‘foot soldiers’ of the civil rights struggle

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby puts focus on ‘reconciliation’

On Grammy weekend, Christian music bounces back

Legacy of Vatican II at heart of dispute between Vatican, U.S. nuns
AMITYVILLE, N.Y. (RNS) Some critics say many Catholic sisters have been using the Second Vatican Council to justify positions and activities that are in conflict with official church teachings, but some nuns say they are living by Vatican II's call to get out of the convent and into the community. By Kim Lawton of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

Dalai Lama taps American to bridge East and West at Tibetan monastery
NEW YORK (RNS) The Dalai Lama has given Nicholas Vreeland, director of The Tibet Center in New York, a daunting new assignment. On July 6, Vreeland will be enthroned as the new abbot of Rato Monastery in Southern India, one of the most important monasteries in Tibetan Buddhism. He will be the first Westerner to hold such a position. By Kim Lawton.

Black Southern Baptist Fred Luter says church shouldn’t be defined by race
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The New Orleans pastor who's poised to become the Southern Baptist Convention's first black president says the denomination shouldn't be defined by its racial history, even as he has concerns about how President Obama has been treated, and the ongoing Trayvon Martin case. By Kim Lawton.
King’s early white ally still fights for `beloved community’
Keeping St. Nick, the man not myth, alive
