Opinion Top Three
How can a denomination based on reconciling differences split over its disagreements?
By David Eagle — April 16, 2024
(RNS) — The United Methodist Church has to stop fracturing over sexuality and learn to live with our differences.
The perils and necessities of saying ‘I don’t know’
By Thomas Reese — April 15, 2024
(RNS) — In political, academic and ecclesial life, expressing uncertainty is the equivalent of committing professional suicide.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, don’t take us to Masada
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 15, 2024
(RNS) — Israel survived a night of dark fear. Let's keep it that way.
How OJ Simpson changed the male-only way I talk, think and pray about God
By Joshua Hammerman — April 12, 2024
(RNS) — OJ's violence toward his wife convinced me to pursue a more gender-balanced liturgy.
Matthew Johnson Harris uses faith to leverage the theater’s power to heal
By Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton — April 11, 2024
(RNS) — Bringing faith into the theater world, not to proselytize but to invite conversations about identity and hurt.
The death penalty says more about us than the condemned
By Joe Ingle — April 11, 2024
(RNS) — I should know. I’ve been a death row pastor for 45 years.
As a Ramadan like no other ends, Gaza’s shadow haunts Muslims young and old
By Dilshad Ali — April 10, 2024
(RNS) — Parents have few answers for children asking about what comes next for Muslims at home and abroad.
Six months of Jewish loneliness
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 10, 2024
(RNS) — Six months. That’s all you need to know.
New Vatican document combines modern transparency with eternal teaching
By Thomas Reese — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — Pope Francis summons all people to defend human dignity in every moment of human existence.
How allowing abortion for secular reasons means allowing it for religious reasons
By Mark Silk — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — States’ abortion laws may not be ‘underinclusive.’
Conservative Christians just lost their scholarly trump card on same-sex relationships
By Jonathan Merritt — April 8, 2024
(RNS) — Theologian Richard Hays' reversal comes at a bad time for those who oppose accepting LGBTQ Christians.
Shalom, Larry David!
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 8, 2024
(RNS) — 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' was perhaps the most Jewish series on television. Here is why.
LDS leaders announce new Mormon temple for Cincinnati
By Jana Riess — April 8, 2024
(RNS) — The LDS Church has had a presence in the area since the earliest days of Mormonism in the 1830s.
Community of Christ celebrates 40 years of women’s ordination
By Jana Riess — April 5, 2024
(RNS) — 40 years ago this week, the world's second-largest Mormon denomination announced it would start ordaining women. That decision forever changed the church, which is now gearing up for its first female president.
Is the eclipse good for the Jews?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 5, 2024
It's not only the sun that was in eclipse. It's something else, as well.
