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To be ordained, would-be PCUSA pastors had to interpret the worst story in the Bible
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 8, 2023
(RNS) Some are criticizing the mainline denomination’s choice to base its recent winter exegesis exam on the biblical story known as ‘The Levite’s Concubine.’
With race in mind, Christians reconsider language of dark and light at Advent
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 7, 2022
(RNS) — ‘The idea that darkness is inherently bad needs no reinforcement,’ said one pastor.
What are God’s pronouns? How the church today is (or isn’t) gendering God
By Kathryn Post — November 18, 2021
(RNS) — Many congregations are actively deciding how to refer to God’s gender in their liturgies, hymns and prayers.
Women are essential in the Bible. Now they’re in the Sunday readings
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 17, 2021
(RNS) — ‘What does it look like to tell the Good News through the stories of women who are often on the margins of scripture and often set up to represent bad news?’ asks the Rev. Wilda Gafney.
Crying as a spiritual discipline may change how you see the world
By Benjamin Perry — May 17, 2021
(RNS) — Our religious texts are filled with crying, usually preceding moments of great transformation.
‘Scholar strike’ for racial injustice includes divinity school professors
By Adelle M. Banks — September 8, 2020
(RNS) — Faculty at Yale Divinity School, Vanderbilt Divinity School and Brite Divinity School ‘are participating in teach-ins,’ an organizer said.
Speaking of abuse: Baptist news service, Bible scholars grapple with language
By Adelle M. Banks and Emily McFarlan Miller — October 10, 2019
(RNS) — Some Christians are reassessing how to describe sexual misconduct, with an eye to owning up to the seriousness of abuse.
Close encounters of the God kind: Scalzi, others mix religion in science fiction
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 14, 2018
CHICAGO (RNS) — Religion often makes an appearance in best-selling, Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi’s works of science fiction — including his latest, 'The Consuming Fire.' And that’s not unique to Scalzi.
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