Laura Everett

Laura Everett is an author at Religion News Service.

All Stories by Laura Everett

Respect for marriage, reconciliation and being seen on the White House lawn

By Jeremy Burton and Laura Everett — December 15, 2022
(RNS) — We were there to see this law be signed, and to celebrate, but also to be seen.

After a Holy Week disrupted by death, an honest Easter

By Laura Everett — April 9, 2020
(RNS) — We are heading into an Easter that stares straight into the eyes of death and empire and still declares love stronger than the grave.

Why Christians should audit their words, worship and practices for anti-Semitism

By Laura Everett and Dan Joslyn-Siemiatkoski — January 27, 2020
(RNS) — Christians can faithfully proclaim our faith as rooted in the witness of biblical Israel without using Jews and Judaism as foils for our own purposes. One place to start is by doing an audit for anti-Semitism.

God rested. Why can’t clergy take a break?

By Laura Everett — January 6, 2020
(RNS) — The church must develop a culture that allows its spiritual leaders to rest without shame.

The spirituality of mending

By Laura Everett — April 10, 2019
(RNS) — Amid our frenzy to declutter, we are drowning in disposables. Mending asks us to fix what we have.
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