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A new book on Tara explores a portal to the divine in a female form
By Yonat Shimron — May 14, 2020
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Author Rachael Wooten hopes Tara’s different emanations can help people overcome suffering and cultivate compassion, even if they never embrace Buddhism.
Bart Ehrman on why everything you’ve been told about heaven and hell is wrong
By Yonat Shimron — March 26, 2020
(RNS) — Best known for his popular books debunking the central assumptions of Christian Scriptures, the New Testament scholar continues this quest in his latest book, ‘Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife.’
Book: How Martin Luther King Jr. used the pulpit to ‘redeem’ America’s soul
By Yonat Shimron — January 17, 2020
(RNS) — He believed there were transcendent truths that had the power to change hearts and move them away from the political and social policies of segregation.
‘The Survivors’ unmasks the generational trauma of the Holocaust
By Yonat Shimron — December 4, 2019
(RNS) — A former speechwriter for Barack Obama, Adam Frankel has written heart-wrenching memoir about confronting the secrets of the past.
Andrew Brunson tells of ‘fight for my faith’ in Turkey
By Adelle M. Banks — October 14, 2019
(RNS) — A year after being freed, Brunson spoke of his appreciation for his freedom and his continuing concern for the people of Turkey.
Who is the Museum of the Bible really for? Scholarly book examines multiple problems
By Yonat Shimron — July 25, 2019
(RNS) — The academic community's critiques have been collected in a book cataloging a host of ills, from the museum's focus on the Protestant Bible to faked artifacts to an alleged evangelical agenda.
‘If you care about democratic society, fight anti-Semitism’
By Yonat Shimron — February 8, 2019
(RNS) — Deborah Lipstadt writes with a scholar’s analytical gaze about the ugly upturn of anti-Semitism, but she concedes, “My attempt to explore a perplexing and disturbing set of circumstances is written with the hope that it will provoke action.”
‘More merciful than Yahweh’: Jack Miles on God in the Quran
By Yonat Shimron — January 22, 2019
(RNS) — In his new book, Miles arrives at some surprising conclusions on the nature of God in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Quran.
Jamie Aten doesn’t just study disaster. He’s lived it.
By Yonat Shimron — January 4, 2019
(RNS) — In his new memoir, Aten, a Wheaton College professor, recounts how his oncologist told him, 'You’re in for your own personal kind of disaster.'
From ‘Judeo-Christian’ to ‘Potluck Nation,’ Eboo Patel pleads for religious pluralism
By Yonat Shimron — August 30, 2018
(RNS) — 'At a potluck, you don’t want everyone to bring mashed potatoes,' says the founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core.
Minister ‘Still Wrestling’ with his faith after murder of his wife and son
By Bobby Ross Jr. — May 30, 2018
JACKSON, Miss. (RNS) — Les Ferguson Jr., a Church of Christ minister, knew his wife and son's killer: He had attended Ferguson’s church until being charged three months earlier with sexually assaulting the 21-year-old son. Seven years later Ferguson has published a book about his path back to trusting God, and the pulpit.
Franklin Graham book shares lessons from ‘America’s Pastor’
By Yonat Shimron — May 4, 2018
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In his new book, "Through My Father's Eyes," Franklin Graham recounts that his father had concerns.
Jimmy Carter, 93, talks about his new book: ‘Faith’
By Adelle M. Banks — April 13, 2018
(RNS) — The former president also told RNS about his plans to speak at Liberty University and cutting back on his Sunday school teaching.
Some think interfaith dialogue goes nowhere. A veteran rabbi begs to differ.
By Lauren Markoe — October 3, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) – 'No one living in Northern Ireland, South Africa or Bosnia-Herzegovina 30 or 40 years ago believed their conflicts would end, but they did,' said Rabbi Ron Kronish.
Divorced from her husband and her faith, Tova Mirvis finds freedom
By Yonat Shimron — September 27, 2017
(RNS) — 'I never want to be in a position of forcing someone to partake in something they don’t want to be a part of. I know what it feels like to be on the other end of that,' said Tova Mirvis, who left the Modern Orthodox Judaism in which she was raised.
