Best of RNS
Churches examine white privilege
By Adelle M. Banks — April 19, 2016
(RNS) Some pastors say celebrating Black History Month with their congregations is no longer enough.
When religion makes people worse (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — April 6, 2016
(RNS) We all say we believe in Jesus, but what we make of that belief is so irreconcilably different I am not sure that we are members of the same religious community.
Franklin Graham wants your heart, not your vote
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 1, 2016
(RNS) Franklin Graham, the hellfire evangelist who's turning election-year rallies into prayer meetings, quotes his daddy -- and Donald Trump.
Whither Wheaton? An evangelical college ponders its future
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 12, 2016
(RNS) The conflict between the school and a professor who tried to show solidarity with Muslims is itself emblematic of where American evangelicalism is today.
Muslim journalists no longer as rare in US newsrooms
By Lauren Markoe — January 12, 2016
(RNS) Can more Muslims in the media give us a better understanding of Islam and those who practice it?
Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor were seriously Jewish, exhibit explains
By Lauren Markoe — November 27, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) Both Marilyn Monoe and Elizabeth Taylor converted to Judaism. But if you think they did it just to please their Jewish husbands, think again. A new exhibit at New York's Jewish Museum chronicles their Jewish journeys.
Sister Joan Chittister, the dissident nun, shares her secret life
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 26, 2015
She was an abused and terrified child who grew up to challenge her church, a new biography reveals. Yet this maverick sister and writer is a traditionalist -- in her own way.
Ben Carson, will you tour the Holocaust Museum with me?
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 9, 2015
If you did, you might drop that whole line about Hitler and gun control.
Black churches bucking the trend of decline
By Adelle M. Banks — August 13, 2015
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (RNS) A recent Pew Research Center survey showed that historically black denominations are not losing their share of the U.S. population. Why is that?
THE BEST OF RNS: Serena Williams’ secret weapon: ‘Jehovah God’
By Kimberly Winston — July 10, 2015
(RNS) How does the world's No. 1 ranked tennis player balance being a Jehovah's Witness with her celebrity?
For Mother’s Day, a place to mourn the babies who never came home
By Lauren Markoe — May 6, 2015
(RNS) For decades, nobody would talk about the babies these mothers lost. Now they have a place to mourn.
THE BEST OF RNS: Gil Caldwell, civil rights leader, turns his eye to LGBT rights
By Adelle M. Banks — May 5, 2015
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) "There is a possibility that on gay rights and marriage equality, God is speaking more through the judiciary than God is speaking through the United Methodist Church,” he says.
Americans divided on facing death: Fight it, choose it or let it come
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — November 21, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Most Americans hold strong views on the care they want -- or don't want -- if they are faced with an incurable disease. A new survey from Pew Research finds that the number of those who would fight death to the bitter end is growing.
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