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You’re More Resilient Than You Think • Rabbi Denise Eger & Rev. Dr. Neil G. Thomas
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 21, 2023
COVID isn't over. How has it affected our faith? Two pioneering clergy share their anguish and their hope.
More Americans stay away from church as pandemic nears year three
By Bob Smietana — January 5, 2023
(RNS) — Many Americans already had dropped out of church life before the pandemic. COVID-19 gave them a reason to let go completely, according to a new survey.
They returned to synagogue. Now what?
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 8, 2021
(RNS) — What we do not know yet is simply this: When they can come back to live, in-person worship, will they?
US churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native schools
By Peter Smith — July 23, 2021
(AP) — The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada have prompted calls for a reckoning over similar schools in the United States.
Keep COVID-19 restrictions during in-person worship, ecumenical guide suggests
By Adelle M. Banks — June 8, 2021
(RNS) — A revised ecumenical guide includes a chart of ‘benchmarks for in-person gatherings,’ distinguishing between worship in outdoor and indoor settings.
When churches reopen, don’t sing or shake hands, do make sermons short, says new guide
By Adelle M. Banks — June 9, 2020
(RNS) — The 36-page document notes that church leaders will make different decisions depending on the recommendations of denominational and health officials.
California lays out pandemic rules for church reopenings
By Stefanie Dazio and Robert Jablon — May 26, 2020
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even with physical distancing, the state says in-person worship carries a higher risk of transmitting the virus and recommends houses of worship shorten services.
Imagine when COVID-19 is over
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 24, 2020
The day after. A fantasy, and a prayer.
God save the boomers!
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 23, 2020
(RNS) — Every church or synagogue wants young members. True, but ...
When it comes to global conflict, churches are the best solution we never think of
By Tim Breene and Scott Arbeiter — September 6, 2019
(RNS) — There is a solution that can help us connect with the needs of communities in faraway places, one that sits on many street corners in our downtowns and backroads in our country and theirs: local churches.
From New York to Alabama, blacks worshipped in own spaces before slavery’s end
By Adelle M. Banks — August 1, 2019
NEW YORK (RNS) — As the nation marks the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of Africans in Virginia, a Harlem church joins others that have represented the enduring faith of slaves, free blacks and their descendants.
In St. Louis, former houses of worship are retooled to meet the city’s needs
By Bill Motchan — June 6, 2019
ST. LOUIS (RNS) — Many retired but architecturally significant houses of worship are surviving by converting to new uses that benefit their neighborhoods or cities in ways their original congregants might approve but never imagined.
Does God care if you smoke weed? Many Bay State faith groups say yeah, man
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — January 23, 2019
BOSTON (RNS) — For many people of faith in the Bay State, legalization hasn’t burned away the moral issues that come with using drugs for fun.
Houses of worship helping solve foster care crisis in Oklahoma
By Bobby Ross Jr. — November 27, 2018
EDMOND, Okla. (RNS) — In the Bible Belt state, churches have become a crucial community partner with government officials to address a foster care crisis.
Churches in Hurricane Florence’s path look to FEMA for a helping hand
By Yonat Shimron — October 4, 2018
(RNS) — FEMA changed its eligibility requirements in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and at the behest of President Trump.
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