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Yes, Biden and Trump are old. Jewish teaching says that can be a good thing.

By Avi Shafran — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — Look what happened when Judean King Rehoboam shunned the advice of the court elders.

World’s oldest marathoner, at 108, is a model of more than simply stamina

By Simran Jeet Singh — April 22, 2019
(RNS) — The 108-year-old's record-breaking running career traverses key issues like classism, racism, literacy bias, ableism and ageism.

Much ado about Mormon leadership

By Martin E. Marty — October 13, 2016
The secularist, anti-communal, anti-organizational impulses that mark Millennials and other younger Americans increasingly are also more characteristic than before of the Mormon, soon to be ex-Mormon young.

The Mormon moment and others

By Martin E. Marty — August 8, 2016
The purpose of this exercise in time-measurement terminology is ... to suggest that people may profitably invest in some of those in their own era, age, and moment, and gain perspective for what is before them.

Stanley Hauerwas reflects on end times, end of his life

By Jonathan Merritt — July 7, 2014
Time Magazine once called him "America's Best Theologian." Today, the nearly 74-year-old Christian is thinking a lot about "approaching the end."

Faithful to the end: An interview with Eugene Peterson

By Jonathan Merritt — September 27, 2013
One of America's best known theologians reflects on 81 years of life and ministry.

For aging religious leaders, is it still ’till death us do part’?

By Adelle M. Banks — February 25, 2013
(RNS) When aging religious leaders reach the top echelons of temporal and spiritual power, their followers have a certain expectation: Till death us do part. But Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise resignation has shifted that calculus, prompting introspection about when, if and how to let go of religion's senior management.
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