Rachel Marie Stone

Rachel Marie Stone is the author of "Eat With Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food" and a book about Jesus for children called "The Unexpected Way."

All Stories by Rachel Marie Stone

Would Arizona’s SB 1062 protect the right to refuse to serve food to ‘gluttons’?

By Rachel Marie Stone — February 26, 2014
What if Arizona's SB 1062 allows restauranteurs to refuse service to "gluttons"?

Passing faith on to the next generation: dogma matters less than love

By Rachel Marie Stone — February 24, 2014
If you hope that your kids will grow up to share your faith, don't worry about imparting lists of rules or doctrines, but keep your relationship with them close.

Why the suffering of animals sometimes hurts most

By Rachel Marie Stone — February 20, 2014
Part of human longing for home--a longing that often looks a lot like faith--seems to include the hope that not just we, but our animals, too, will find a place beyond suffering, beyond fear, beyond death itself.

Do parents misuse religious exemptions to excuse kids from vaccines?

By Rachel Marie Stone — February 18, 2014
Most states allow parents to claim religious exemptions to vaccinations -- and more parents are doing just that, even when their objection to vaccination has nothing to do with faith. And that's a problem.

A Psalm for Nobel nominee Dr. Catherine Hamlin, 90, who’s still operating

By Rachel Marie Stone — February 14, 2014
Dr. Catherine Hamlin has just turned 90 -- and has just been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. A Psalm of praise for this woman of valor.

J.K. Rowling, enough commenting on Harry Potter — it’s over!

By Rachel Marie Stone — February 12, 2014
J.K. Rowling changed her mind. Ron and Hermione shouldn’t have ended up together at all. If they did, she speculates, they would have needed some serious relationship counseling. “I can hear the rage and fury it might cause some fans, but if I’m absolutely honest, distance has given me perspective on that,” Rowling told the […]

Let’s not laugh (too much) at #SochiProblems: just say ‘no’ to poverty porn

By Rachel Marie Stone — February 10, 2014
At this moment, I’ve been living in one of the poorest countries in the world for one year, three months, and two days. I can’t use the tap water to rinse my toothbrush, much less to drink. All of the water we use must go through a high-quality, Swiss-made ceramic filter. But that’s quite a […]

The last time I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman

By Rachel Marie Stone — February 7, 2014
Before we moved to Malawi, my husband and I celebrated our tenth anniversary a little early by going to see Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman in New York. I’d long loved Hoffman’s film performances — particularly in Doubt, Capote, and The Savages — and regularly channeled his perfect, nasally-whiney […]

A little less homely and a little more homey

By Rachel Marie Stone — February 6, 2014
Join a warm and thoughtful discussion about the journey toward faith and home with Religion News Service's newest blogger.

NEWS FEATURE: More and more college students majoring in religion

By Rachel Marie Stone — April 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-As Khyati Joshi, 25, walks to class at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she flinches when she hears a siren.”I never know when a bomb will explode,”she said. But Joshi refuses to leave.”Being in Israel gets inside you,”she said.”You become involved in things. As I see the struggle that goes on […]
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