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My open letter to Natalie Portman
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 22, 2018
(RNS) — She should have handled this differently.
Earth Day, Exodus and Martin Luther King
By Robert F. Murphy — April 20, 2018
(RNS) — If you want environmental peace, work for environmental justice.
How MLK was influenced by a black preacher you may have never heard of
By John Terrill — April 20, 2018
(RNS) — Throughout his life, Howard Thurman wrestled with the question of how the 'religion of Jesus' applied to those 'whose backs are against the wall.'
Earth Days past and present
By Richard Mouw — April 19, 2018
(RNS) — If I had to choose a Bible verse for a sermon I would give on Earth Day this year, it would be Psalm 24, verse 1: 'The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.' And I would encourage our taking an inventory of what is happening in 'the fullness thereof.'
Remembering the children of the Warsaw Ghetto on the 75th anniversary of the uprising
By Samantha Baskind — April 19, 2018
(RNS) — While the Warsaw Ghetto uprising offers a narrative that has been vibrantly told again and again, mythologized by an American culture that craves happy endings, however feeble they may be, the ghetto’s story also speaks to a different kind of memory: one of lost innocence and mercilessness.
Barbara Bush’s old-fashioned religion
By Lauren Markoe — April 18, 2018
(RNS) — Barbara Bush seemed to embody the virtues of womanhood promoted in 20th-century American Protestantism: loyalty, duty and family.
Heeding the sacred call to give sanctuary to the vulnerable
By Traci Blackmon — April 18, 2018
(RNS) — Our immigration enforcement agencies are becoming agents of family separation.
On the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
By Lauren Markoe — April 16, 2018
(RNS) — Living in America, I escaped the Nazis in those horrendous years. But I am forever haunted by the knowledge that had I been born in Transylvania instead of Pennsylvania, I would likely have been one of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
Your tax return is a sacred document
By Joshua Hammerman — April 16, 2018
(RNS) — Corny as it seems, I improvise a blessing when I put my completed tax forms in the mail. (Commentary)
‘I have made serious mistakes,’ says pope. ‘I ask forgiveness.’
By Thomas Reese — April 16, 2018
(RNS) — Popes are not supposed to make mistakes. But Francis from the beginning of his papacy has admitted that he is a sinner like every other Christian.
Could armed Jews have prevented the Holocaust?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 12, 2018
(RNS) — The idea that Jews with guns could have made any meaningful resistance is the cruelest, most cynical, most ignorant alternative fact there is.
End the Buddhist terror in Myanmar now
By Hozan Alan Senauke — April 11, 2018
(RNS) — Today, ultranationalist Buddhist monks stand behind the military and urge them on, sometimes participating in the violence themselves.
The Vietnam War revisited
By Thomas Reese — April 11, 2018
(RNS) — Looking back, I feel guilty for being so stupid and burying myself in books rather than being part of the historic events of my time.
4 reasons Republicans should be hella worried, and not just because of the midterms
By Jana Riess — April 11, 2018
(RNS) — Republicans still appeal to older white Christian voters who have less than a college education, says a new Pew study. The problem for the GOP is that these voters are fast becoming thin on the ground.
No integrity for Trump’s evangelical disciples. Sad!
By Jacob Lupfer — April 10, 2018
(RNS) — Conservative Christians blame Hollywood and liberals and everyone but themselves. But they are the ones who brought vulgarity, adultery and a porn star into my family’s home.
