Sermon on the Mount
How much do Americans know about the faiths around them?
By Ryan Burge — February 15, 2023
(RNS) — And what helps us most to understand our neighbors’ faiths?
Five Christmas sermon blunders that get Judaism (and Jesus) wrong
By Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler — December 24, 2021
(RNS) — Christmas brings out some of the worst ignorance of Jesus’ Judaism.
How evangelicals’ fundraising by demonization fed Capitol violence
By Rob Schenck — February 3, 2021
(RNS) — How I aided and abetted the poisoning of evangelical culture with alarmist rhetoric from the pulpit.
As political violence rises, we need peacemakers at the polls
By Jennifer Butler — October 16, 2020
(RNS) — Pastors can't take a bloodless election for granted. But people of faith have unique power to keep the peace, now and in the long term.
Pelosi prays for Trump
By Mark Silk — December 6, 2019
(RNS) — The question is not 'Why?,' but why the president would not grasp the well-known Christian concept.
Why Nancy Pelosi doesn’t hate the president and prays for him instead
By Thomas Reese — December 5, 2019
(RNS) — Even when she wants to impeach President Donald Trump, Pelosi says she doesn't hate him. Instead, she says, her Catholic faith teaches her to pray for him even if they disagree.
The most prolific author in history has died
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 10, 2016
Jacob Neusner has died. He revolutionized American Jewish studies.
Mourn for Scalia, don’t gloat
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 15, 2016
We didn't always agree with Scalia. But let's mourn him in the proper way.
Why hipster pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber thinks the church is for losers
By Jesse James DeConto — September 29, 2015
(RNS) Her newest book, “Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People," expands on her trademark exploration of finding God in the unexpected.
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