Nashville

Nashville church shooting: What happens when violence invades sacred spaces
By Holly Meyer — September 26, 2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — People are shot at churches every year across America. There aren’t any official government statistics on the subject, but some researchers have attempted to quantify it.

Officials: 1 dead, 7 victims hurt in church shooting
By Kristin Hall — September 24, 2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A masked gunman entered a church in Tennessee on Sunday and opened fire, killing at least one person and injuring seven others before apparently shooting himself, an official said.

Religion journalists singing country & blues in Nashville
By Thomas Reese — September 5, 2017
(RNS) — 'There are simply fewer religion writers today. They have either been laid off or jumped ship before they got pushed out.'

Houses of worship do some soul-searching as their neighborhoods change
By Holly Meyer — July 23, 2017
NASHVILLE — Buildings that once held worship services have been repurposed or bulldozed and redeveloped into bars, restaurants and other secular spaces.

How Cat Stevens helped Nashville’s Muslims find a home
By RNS staff — September 29, 2016
On Sunday — almost 40 years after his initial, unexpected donation — the British musician and convert to Islam paid a visit to the center he helped establish.

Ben Carson touts creationism during Nashville speech
By Dave Boucher — November 2, 2015
NASHVILLE —This is not the first time Carson has spoken about his doubts on evolution.

East-West Travelblog: From ‘atheist’ to ‘Christian’ over breakfast
By Kimberly Winston — August 27, 2015
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) City officials would have us believe all is harmony in Music City. But with the country's largest community of Iraqi Kurds and sizable groups of Latinos, Somalis and Bhutanese moving into "the Buckle of the Bible Belt" that isn't always the case.

Sexy swingers club or ‘church’: Who gets to decide?
By Heidi Hall — April 30, 2015
MADISON, Tenn. (RNS) Rooms labeled as dungeons in remodeling plans for The Social Club have been renamed as "choir" and "handbell" space in the revamped United Fellowship Center. Courts may decide the sincerity of that conversion.

Southern Baptist race summit calls for focus on reconciliation
By Heidi Hall — March 26, 2015
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) Russell Moore said the work of racial reconciliation isn’t just for people whose “bedsheets have eyeholes,” he said, referring to the Ku Klux Klan. It’s for articulate people whose racism finds expression in complex and indirect ways.

Parents accept daughter’s rare illness as ‘God’s will’
By Bob Smietana — October 25, 2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) It's one thing to talk about God's will when life is good. It's another when a doctor is saying your baby won't live. Eric and Ruth Brown were forced to consider religious, medical and ethical issues most parents never will. By Bob Smietana.

Unitarian Universalists see chance for growth in growth of secularism
By Bob Smietana — October 4, 2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) Unitarian Universalists grew nationally by 15.8 percent from 2000 to 2010, and while they remain small in total numbers with about 211,000 adherents nationwide, Unitarians believe their open-minded faith has a bright future as an alternative to more exclusive brands of religion. By Bob Smietana/USA Today.

Southern Baptist heavyweight Richard Land in the fight of his life
By Bob Smietana — May 29, 2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) For the past 24 years, Richard Land has used his folksy charm and fiery rhetoric to become the public face of Southern Baptists. Now his future is in doubt, pending a probe of his remarks about the Trayvon Martin shooting and for alleged plagiarism. By Bob Smietana.

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