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Religion News Services covers current stories and events surrounding gender and sexuality and their influence in culture.
(RNS) — The Rev. Donald Anderson, 70, executive minister of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, will take a three-month leave beginning June 1 to complete a transition from male to female.
PUNE, India (RNS) — As ideas about gender equality spread in India, female clergy are slowly gaining acceptance in the country’s male-dominated religions, solemnizing marriage, birth and death ceremonies for Hindus and adjudicating religious matters for Muslims.
(RNS) — “We cannot honor our mothers in this #MeToo moment without listening to the cries of generations of women who have suffered sexual violence and domestic abuse because of an unrighteous order that we imagined to be from God,” writes Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.
(RNS) — Southern Baptists cannot move on because they’ve been thrust into a larger cultural conversation.
(RNS) — A generation ago, evangelical luminaries denounced the Soviet Union and Russian leadership in the strongest possible terms.
Just because you have a sincere belief doesn’t mean you get to discriminate against your transgender employees.
(AP) — The dossier, containing WhatsApp chats and other evidence, was compiled by a self-proclaimed gay escort.
When HHS does get around to writing its rules, it would do well to listen to the Catholic Health Association in developing rules that protect individual consciences but do not discriminate.
Every day, six Christian women are reportedly raped, sexually harassed or forced to marry under threat of execution due to their faith.
(RNS) — After condemnation from conservatives, ‘The Message’ author says he regrets telling RNS columnist Jonathan Merritt that he would officiate a same-sex wedding.
Last October, evangelicalism was rocked by the launch of ChurchClarity.org, an organization that reports churches’ LGBTQ+ policies and rates congregations based on their level of clarity. The website angered Christians on both sides of the issue. Some conservatives attacked the CC’s liberal leadership, while some progressives claimed that labeling churches undermined progress. Nevertheless, Church Clarity persisted. Over the past two months, CC published scores for 500 congregations and have 700 more in the pipeline.
(RNS) For Prince, who died in April 2016, ‘every song was either a prayer or foreplay.’
Julie Roys says feminism may have contributed to our current crisis and fundamentalists may be making it worse.
It is time for the two groups to set aside their differences and unite for the common good.
