(RNS) — DMX pointed me to Jesus not through a sermon or a Bible study, but through his bold faith that didn’t paper over his flaws.

It’s often assumed that of course women want to be mothers—that this desire is natural, God-given and universal. It’s not, Donna Freitas asserts in the new novel “The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano.”

(RNS) — Other than sex, nothing is more heatedly debated in the Catholic Church than the liturgy.

(RNS) — As you fast from what is ordinarily permissible, you learn to fast from what is prohibited at all times.

(The Conversation) — The belief that God assigned gender roles formed in response to the women’s liberation movement.

(RNS) — We Jews are a small people, but we are a large family. 

(The Conversation) — Prioritizing religious liberty claims over health and bias concerns, the conservative majority has skewed the concept.

(RNS) — A court bent on finding an absence of neutrality can always find something.

(RNS) — Her prayer makes me uneasy, but may help me see why Chanequa Walker-Barnes may hate someone like me.

(RNS) — On the anniversary of Thurman’s death, it’s worth recalling how this towering figure moved on a very human level.

(RNS) — We have a duty not to let our politics blind us to the image of God in our neighbors.

(RNS) — ‘Canceling’ problematic media properties provides us with a way to talk about the complicated nature of desire.