prayer
How not to comfort the mourning: Hospital chaplain J.S. Park talks grief in new book
By Kathryn Post — April 16, 2024
(RNS) — ‘The biggest myth I see is that grief is a poison to get past,’ said Park.
A new memoir examines how to reclaim faith after a bipolar diagnosis
By Yonat Shimron — March 8, 2024
(RNS) — In her new book, 'Devout: A Memoir of Doubt,' Gazmarian lays bare how inadequately the church and church-approved therapists treated her condition and how she struggled to find another way.
Why my uncle left Judaism
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 26, 2024
(RNS) — Let's be careful how we treat people in our religious institutions. It matters — sometimes across the generations.
Pastor rescues North Korean defectors on foot in new documentary ‘Beyond Utopia’
By Kathryn Post — December 11, 2023
(RNS) — The film features rare footage of the rescue missions led by Pastor Seungeun Kim and his ministry, Caleb Mission.
Palestinian Americans rally, pray and organize amid crisis in Gaza
By Kathryn Post — October 23, 2023
(RNS) — 'This is not a time to say, ‘I'm stressed and I can't.’ People in Gaza need us,' said Walaa Kanan, a Palestinian American community organizer.
Wracked by grief, US Jews gather to mourn, lament and raise money for Israel
By Yonat Shimron — October 12, 2023
(RNS) — Many American Jews are feeling an acute sense of trauma.
Atheist and agnostic fired for not attending company prayers win $50K in suit
By Yonat Shimron — August 7, 2023
(RNS) — The two workers declined to participate in a daily prayer circle as the company owner read from Scripture.
The note that I put into the Western Wall
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 5, 2023
(RNS) — Do I believe God lives in the Western Wall? No. Do I not believe it? Also, no. It’s complicated.
Why people have trouble praying
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 6, 2023
Does your spiritual life need a GPS? Meet the master teacher who helped create it.
New Mexican Spanish, a unique American dialect, survives mostly in prayers
By Giovanna Dell'orto — May 23, 2023
HOLMAN, N.M. (AP) — The historic, endangered dialect is as central to these communities as their iconic adobe churches.
One in 4 US Mormons has thought about leaving the LDS Church, study shows
By Jana Riess — May 19, 2023
(RNS) — PRRI's findings showed Latter-day Saints were some of the most religious — but often uncertain — believers.
More Americans pray in their car than in a place of worship, survey finds
By Adelle M. Banks — May 4, 2023
(RNS) — A distinct majority of those who pray (87%) said they believed they’d received an answer to their prayers in the last 12 months.
Does the state of Israel still have a prayer?
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 9, 2023
(RNS) — I love Israel. Its current government — not at all. I pray that it changes, or that its policies change. Too much is at stake.
William Barber points to NFL players’ humanity in prayer for Damar Hamlin
By Kathryn Post — January 8, 2023
(RNS) — The league is still reeling from Hamlin’s on-field injury on Monday night.
Is this antisemitism, or something else?
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 4, 2023
(RNS) — It’s not Jew hatred. But even still, it stings.
Page 1 of 10
