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The Ram Mandir may offer a way forward for India and South Asia
By Murali Balaji — January 22, 2024
(RNS) — India's prime minister could use the popularity of the mandir to heal the wounds of the past few decades.
Thanksgiving stories gloss over the history of US settlement on Native lands
By Lisa Michelle King — November 21, 2023
(The Conversation) — A scholar of Native American and Indigenous rhetorics writes about the harm done to Native American nations through colonization and what can be done to reduce it.
Columbus Day celebrates an ongoing threat to American democracy
By Robert P. Jones — October 6, 2023
(RNS) — A federal holiday day at odds with our identity as a pluralistic democracy.
Some Muslims are attacking LGBTQ rights. They don’t speak for all of us.
By Ani Zonneveld — June 16, 2023
(RNS) — The Prophet Muhammad called on Muslims to stand up against the oppression of the most vulnerable.
Raw materials, or sacred beings? Lithium extraction puts two worldviews into tension
By Mario Orospe Hernández — May 1, 2023
(The Conversation) — Lithium extraction in Bolivia poses more than environmental questions: It illustrates how notions about ‘raw materials’ can be at odds with Indigenous relations with the land.
‘The White Mosque’: A Mennonite of color’s travel memoir rejects rigid storytelling
By Kathryn Post — October 26, 2022
(RNS) — Sofia Samatar intertwines her story with the stories of the German Mennonites who traveled to Uzbekistan in the 1800s to fulfill an apocalyptic prophecy.
Utah’s Pioneer Day celebrates Mormons’ trek west – but there’s a lot more to the history of Latter-day Saints and migration
By Jeffrey Turner — July 22, 2022
(The Conversation) — The Utah holiday is a reflection of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ slowly changing identity, a historian of Mormonism and migration writes.
Hawaii museum revisits history of gender-fluid healers
By Audrey Mcavoy — July 8, 2022
HONOLULU (AP) — The Bishop Museum exhibit, on display through Oct. 16, displays artifacts like massage sticks and a medicine pounder that healers would have used centuries ago.
The American church needs to reckon with its legacy in Indigenous boarding schools
By Kaitlin Curtice — June 24, 2021
(RNS) — The American church will not be able to hide from its history of complicity in the treatment of Indigenous peoples — and the ongoing colonization Indigenous peoples continue to face today.
How COVID-19 and the fight against Big Oil is reviving one Alaskan people’s spiritual traditions
By Daysha Eaton — May 30, 2020
(RNS) — How indigenous women are leading the fight to protect one of North America’s last wild places, sparking a cultural and spiritual renaissance.
Pope warns booming Mauritius against ‘idolatrous economic model’
By Claire Giangravé — September 10, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Though today Mauritius is 'an oasis of peace,' Francis said it must still 'remain vigilant.'
The race to colonize Mars is on. One astronomy professor isn’t sure we should go.
By Holly Meyer — May 14, 2018
(USA Today Network) — The race to colonize Mars is underway, but one astronomy professor thinks we should slow down and figure out if there is life on Earth's planetary neighbor before our exploration destroys it.
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