love
God loves you. Deal with it.
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 21, 2024
The Jewish eroticism that hides in almost plain sight.
‘Interspiritual’ former pastor talks faith beyond church in new book
By Kathryn Post — February 29, 2024
(RNS) — Felicia Murrell’s ‘And: The Restorative Power of Love in an Either/Or World,’ is an invitation to explore an untethered spirituality where God doesn’t belong to any one institution.
Why is a love poem full of sex in the Bible? Readers have been struggling with the Song of Songs for 2,000 years
By Jonathan Kaplan — February 14, 2023
(The Conversation) — The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people.
On the anniversary of his birth, a reflection on the life of Guru Nanak
By Simran Jeet Singh — November 30, 2020
(RNS) — Sikhs around the world celebrate the birth anniversary of their founder-prophet, Guru Nanak, every autumn.
Opposition to interfaith marriage in India puts many couples at risk
By Bhavya Dore — April 20, 2018
MUMBAI, India (RNS) — In India, interfaith and intercaste couples are increasingly facing bullying, harassment, familial opposition and even death threats.
This Muslim artist is giving Valentine’s Day a subversive twist
By Aysha Khan — February 14, 2018
(RNS) — In their sixth year, Taz Ahmed's satirical Valentine's Day cards point the arrow at the White House.
When Ash Wednesday falls on Valentine’s Day, what’s a clergyperson to do?
By Adelle M. Banks — February 14, 2018
(RNS) — A pastor of an Episcopal church plans to say 'Remember that you are beloved, and to love you shall return,' during the imposition of ashes (instead of the traditional 'Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return').
Love is in the air. That’s the problem.
By Manis Friedman — February 13, 2018
(RNS) — Mystical tradition has a take on the story of Adam and Eve that teaches us something essential about our own pursuit of intimacy.
The gospel according to Wonder Woman?
By Yonat Shimron — June 11, 2017
(RNS) In the latest action movie, we have a skillfully wrought story about a powerful woman, a divine force in the world and all of the other women who helped fashion her.
The three little words that Jews never say
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 14, 2017
When did we stop talking about a loving God?
The most powerful 3 words? Not ‘I love you’
By Jacob Lupfer — February 14, 2017
(RNS) Our faith traditions promote authentic healing and restoration, even, and especially when, a passionate, magical Valentine’s Day feels very far off.
How to love each other (and ourselves) despite our differences
By Jonathan Merritt — January 3, 2017
The son of a popular Christian author talks about his struggle to embrace his uniqueness.
3 ways to practice civility after a very uncivil election
By Ed Stetzer — November 9, 2016
(RNS) Christians are called to lovingly engage people as Jesus did. But what does this look like when we all dig our heels into one side of a sea of red and blue?
On LGBT issues, how can Christians disagree in a loving way?
By Jonathan Merritt — November 1, 2016
Is it possible to disagree about LGBT issues without demonizing others as haters or heretics, Pharisees or apostates?
Henri Nouwen’s intimate letters shed light on his ‘theology of the heart’
By John Murawski — October 4, 2016
(RNS) Nouwen's letters chronicle his lifelong struggles with celibacy, his disaffection with academia and his prolonged recovery from a nervous breakdown -- among the many spiritual stations that mark this late priest's life.
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