Roxanne Stone

Roxanne Stone is the managing editor for Religion News Service and the co-host of the RNS, award-winning podcast Saved By the City.

All Stories by Roxanne Stone

Women Are Shaking Up the Vatican + Claire Giangravé

By Roxanne Stone — April 18, 2024
RNS's Vatican reporter gives us the inside scoop on the contentious conversations around women's ordination in the Catholic Church.

Smokin’ Hot Christians and Patriotic Bibles + Micha Boyett on the Dream of God

By Roxanne Stone — April 11, 2024
We talk limits — and why we're embracing them — with Micha Boyett. Plus, a little side dishing on raunchy Christians and a certain Bible being hawked by a certain former president.

Ditch the Apps! Find a Matchmaker. + Richa Karmarkar

By Roxanne Stone — April 4, 2024
When did dating get so anonymous? And what have we lost along the way?

Asking Better Questions + Krista Tippett

By Roxanne Stone — March 28, 2024
Katelyn and Roxy are joined by the woman who arguably started the spiritual podcasting genre, the longtime host of On Being, Krista Tippett.

Has Politics Poisoned Our Souls? + Michael Wear

By Roxanne Stone — March 21, 2024
Michael Wear challenges us to a more soulful politics that, gasp, takes Christianity seriously.

Seeking Besties in a Romance-Obsessed World + Laura Tremaine

By Roxanne Stone — March 13, 2024
Katelyn and Roxy are joined by Laura Tremaine as we discuss what it might take to center friendship

Blowing Up the Evangelical Bro Code

By Roxanne Stone — March 7, 2024
Katelyn and Roxy unpack the Three B's: Breadwinner Bias, The Billy Graham Rule and Bullying.

The World According to GOOP + Rina Raphael

By Roxanne Stone — February 29, 2024
Katelyn and Roxy are joined by Rina Raphael for a look at the ever-expanding wellness industry and the vice grip it has on weary women.

When God Met Country + Rob Reiner & Dan Partland

By Roxanne Stone — February 22, 2024
On this episode, Katelyn and Roxy are joined by Dan Partland and Rob Reiner as they ask, 'can Christianity and nationalism just be friends?'

Hearts and ashes: 10 ways to celebrate Ash Wednesday on Valentine’s Day

By Roxanne Stone and Emily McFarlan Miller — February 13, 2024
(RNS) — It’s a marriage of holidays most sorrowful and saccharine.

Aaron Ivey, pastor and husband of podcaster Jamie Ivey, accused of ‘indecent’ texts with men

By Roxanne Stone — February 11, 2024
(RNS) — Elders at his Austin, Texas, church said in a statement announcing his dismissal that they had discovered a ‘very clear pattern of predatory manipulation, sexual exploitation, and abuse of influence’ by Ivey.

ApocryFUN: A Midwinter Series with Tyler Huckabee + Ep. 5: Left Behind

By Roxanne Stone — February 7, 2024
In this episode, Roxy reads Left Behind for the first time and reports back to Tyler.

ApocryFUN: A Midwinter Series with Tyler Huckabee + Ep. 4: Desiring God

By Roxanne Stone — February 1, 2024
Tyler and Roxy wonder all over again what it means to be a Christian hedonist.

ApocryFUN: A Midwinter Series with Tyler Huckabee + Ep. 3: Purpose Driven Life

By Roxanne Stone — January 25, 2024
Tyler and Roxy  travel back in time to an era of 5 step growth strategies, acronyms for all things and Hawaiian shirts. AKA Southern California in 2002.

ApocryFUN: A Midwinter Series with Tyler Huckabee + Ep. 2: Wild at Heart

By Roxanne Stone — January 18, 2024
Tyler and Roxy become the men God created them to be with Wild at Heart, the 2001 book with a direct through line to modern evangelical ideas around masculinity.
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