DIY Faith
Some of the best food in Texas is made for the hungriest Texans
By Sarah Angle — August 14, 2019
FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS) — Besides its good food, what sets Taste Community apart is that it’s a nonprofit, pay-what-you-can, faith-based endeavor.
Gurinder Chadha: ‘I started my career as a way of combating racism’
By Simran Jeet Singh — August 13, 2019
(RNS) — British director Gurinder Chadha's latest film, 'Blinded by the Light,' depicts a lost teenager in Margaret Thatcher's Britain finding salvation through perhaps the unlikeliest of saviors — Bruce Springsteen.
Muslim initiative raises $13,000 to release detained migrant parents
By Aysha Khan — August 8, 2019
(RNS) — Launched on Aug. 5 by the Islamic nonprofit CelebrateMercy, the Muslims for Migrants campaign has already exceeded its original goal of raising $10,000 in two weeks.
Navigating grief in the social media age
By Paul O'Donnell — August 6, 2019
(RNS) — At a time when trust in church and clergy is strikingly low, young adults are finding new ways to support each other when bad news or tragedy arrives.
Why do racists hate ethnic and religious clothing?
By Simran Jeet Singh — July 31, 2019
(RNS) — Seeing someone dressed in unfamiliar attire, like a Punjabi kurta pajama, may cause confusion or raise an eyebrow. It should not be a cause for hate.
Celebrating new religious freedom law, Bolivian evangelicals push for more
By Eduardo Campos Lima — July 29, 2019
(RNS) — The new law marks a turning point for Protestant denominations that have historically tended to keep their distance from politics.
‘It’s us or no one’: Nonprofit defends LGBTQ students from their universities
By Chris Karnadi — July 26, 2019
RNS) — Queer students at Christian colleges and other conservative schools often have to deal with isolation and even discipline from the administration, just as many are processing their sexuality themselves. One advocacy group helps them fight back.
Joshua Harris and the sexual prosperity gospel
By Katelyn Beaty — July 26, 2019
(RNS) — Some evangelicals who denounce the prosperity gospel seem to have no problem touting the purity culture that say God will reward those who wait.
Millennials, moral relativism and Iris Murdoch
By Tara Isabella Burton — July 19, 2019
(RNS) — The celebrated British novelist Iris Murdoch, who would have turned 100 this week, anticipated young Americans' attempt to find goodness without God.
Muslim group launches campaign to take Fridays off for Jummah prayers
By Aysha Khan — July 18, 2019
HARRISBURG, Pa. (RNS) – “Some weeks Friday passes and we don’t even realize it was the day of Jummah,” said Imam Azhar Haneef, missionary-in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, during his Friday sermon at the group’s annual convention.
In ‘Seculosity,’ David Zahl traces society’s search for righteousness outside of the church
By Aysha Khan — July 17, 2019
(RNS) — You may not follow a religion, David Zahl says. But chances are your life — from your phone to your dinner plate to the way you raise your kids — is still ruled by some sort of a religious impulse.
What it feels like to be told ‘Go back where you came from’
By Simran Jeet Singh — July 17, 2019
(RNS) — Divisive rhetoric is a serious threat to our dignity, but when people tell me to 'go back' to where I came from, my response is simple: I ask them what they have against Texans.
Millennial Catholics go ‘biking for babies,’ raise funds for crisis pregnancy clinics
By Eric Berger — July 16, 2019
ST. LOUIS (RNS) — Wearing blue and yellow Biking for Babies cycling jerseys and traveling mostly through red states, the 23 riders, the majority of them Catholic and college-age, said they often encountered people who support their mission.
On Prime Day, Muslim workers and activists are organizing against Amazon
By Aysha Khan — July 16, 2019
(RNS) — With Amazon’s much-hyped Prime Day sale underway, Muslim workers and faith-based activists are leading major strikes and boycotts of the online retail giant’s biggest discount event of the year.
In remote Appalachia, liberal Christians gather at Wild Goose to pray — and plan
By Jack Jenkins — July 15, 2019
HOT SPRINGS, N.C. (RNS) — As the religious left exerts an unaccustomed influence on politics, this Christian festival has begun to draw recognizable names, including presidential candidates.
