storytelling

Young Japan priests try to breathe life into fading Buddhism

By Malcolm Foster — June 12, 2020
TOKYO (AP) — Buddhist leaders say a third of the country’s 75,000 temples are barely functioning, but a younger generation of priests is working to reverse the faith’s downward spiral.

Life stories — not sermons — guide Gilead Church in Chicago

By Katelyn Ferral — March 4, 2019
CHICAGO (RNS) — At Gilead Church in Chicago, life stories are as sacred as Scripture.

Thomas Page McBee on his brush with death, transgender stories, and his agnostic mother

By Chris Stedman — October 23, 2014
Author Thomas Page McBee tells RNS about the religious themes of "Man Alive," the influence of his agnostic mother, religion and the transgender community, and how men can address their own privilege.
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