What we have to learn from students leading the charge for justice
By Serene Jones
(RNS) — We need to be the kind of faith and public leaders we want our students to become.
Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle
By Robert P. Jones
(RNS) — The overlooked religious middle is poised to play an outsized role in the 2024 presidential contest.
Despair in the Holy Land
By Thomas Reese
(RNS) — We have to persevere for peace and have hope because the alternative is too terrible to imagine.
The biblical character who goes ‘down the rabbit hole’ into an alternate reality
By Ryan M. Armstrong
(The Conversation) — The Book of Job and ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ both make fun of preachy know-it-alls and resist conventions of their genres.
For the ancient Maya, cracked mirrors were a path to the world beyond
By James L. Fitzsimmons
(The Conversation) — Broken mirrors can be associated with bad luck, but for the ancient Maya, a cracked mirror was often desirable.
‘A step back in time’: America’s Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
By Tim Sullivan
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing tide sparked in the 1960s by Vatican II are increasingly giving way to religious conservatives who believe the church has been twisted by change,
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