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With FlashPoint Live, roster of Pentecostal ‘prophets’ hits the road for Trump
By Steve Rabey — February 2, 2024
(RNS) — The tour’s personalities and themes are borrowed from 'FlashPoint,' a Christian current-events program that features Trump and his former officials, members of Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro.
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.
Is the university good for the Jews? With Mark Oppenheimer
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 25, 2024
How did the university become a battle ground for Jewish identity? A conversation with Mark Oppenheimer reveals some interesting nuances to that question.
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.
Are American Jews in crisis? A conversation with Professor Jonathan Sarna
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 11, 2024
American Jewish weather report: increased chill in the air. A conversation with historian Professor Jonathan Sarna.
ApocryFUN: A Midwinter Series with Tyler Huckabee + Ep. 1: Blue Like Jazz
By Roxanne Stone — January 11, 2024
(RNS) — Tyler and Roxy travel back to the liminal faith space of Blue Like Jazz, the 2003 book that introduced us to craft beers, Mark Driscoll and being OK with doubt.
Why didn’t President Biden kick off his campaign at Gettysburg?
By Mark Silk — January 8, 2024
(RNS) — The comparison to outright Civil War was likely too dangerous.
A small Spanish city’s bid to build Europe’s biggest Buddha
By Hanna Vioque — January 5, 2024
(RNS) — The 6,000-ton white jade Buddha statue will overlook a sprawling group of temples and monasteries just kilometers from the city center. But suspicions of the project abound.
Why Israel matters: A conversation about the National Library of Israel with Rachel Ukeles
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 28, 2023
When people tell me that they are ‘culturally Jewish,’ I can now say: ‘Welcome to your culture.’
Self-Help Wisdom You Won’t See on Instagram + Liz Forkin Bohannon
By Roxanne Stone — December 21, 2023
Katelyn and Roxy share advice that's actually helped and talk with entrepreneur Liz Forkin Bohannon, who swears by 'dreaming small' and 'owning your average.'
In India’s holiest city, Hindus worship the nation of India
By Richa Karmarkar — December 20, 2023
VARANASI, India (RNS) — The Bharat Mata mandir in India’s holiest city has come to represent an ideology that many in Narendra Modi’s constituency hold — a distinctly religious allegiance to the personified mother goddess of India.
For years, an oil drill site stood in the heart of a South LA neighborhood. Now a park may rise in its place.
By Bob Smietana — December 19, 2023
(RNS) — 'God is giving us beauty for ashes,' said Parks, president of Redeemer Community Partnership.
Grief Is Hell. Friends Make It Less Awful. + J.S. Park
By Roxanne Stone — December 14, 2023
An episode on the power of community and friendship when life hands you loss, with hospital chaplain J.S. Park.
Speaker Mike Johnson and the Christian Lawmakers
By Ray Kirstein — December 9, 2023
State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Holly Hollman of BJC and Darcy Hirsh from Interfaith Alliance about House Speaker Mike Johnson's cozy ties to an organization of Christian nationalist legislators