Opinion
Purim, Passover and the formation of memory
By Beth Kissileff — April 19, 2024
(RNS) — An essential part of the memory-making of both Passover and Purim is the hope we find in gathering.
3 things to learn about patience − and impatience − from al-Ghazali, a medieval Islamic scholar
By Liz Bucar — April 19, 2024
How to choose a great wine for Passover
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 19, 2024
Charles C. Camosy
Purple Catholicism
Jana Riess
Flunking Sainthood
Karen Swallow Prior
One Eye Squinted
Jeffrey Salkin
Martini Judaism
Phyllis Zagano
Just Catholic
Thomas Reese
Signs of the Times
Andre Henry
Written in Protest
Mark Silk
Spiritual Politics
Omar Suleiman
Islam Beyond Phobia
Simran Jeet Singh
Articles of Faith
Khyati Joshi
Living Religion
Candice Marie Benbow
Faithfully Feminist
Jonathan Merritt
On Faith and Culture
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A Muslim valedictorian is abandoned by her own university
By Dilshad Ali — April 18, 2024
(RNS) — The decision to bar Asna Tabassum from speaking shows academic institutions are failing to protect students equally.
What happens when most of the Catholic churches in Baltimore close?
By Mark Silk — April 18, 2024
(RNS) — The loss to local communities is likely to be substantial.
It’s not just young women who have a problem with Mormon temple garments. It’s young adults, period.
By Jana Riess — April 18, 2024
(RNS) — An LDS church leader recently said that garment rules were getting stricter because of the laxity of young women. Let’s expand that to ‘young people.’
Does my alma mater deserve an F in antisemitism?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 17, 2024
(RNS) — If antisemitism is a test, what does it mean for a college to fail?
Why an organization founded to care for orphans no longer has a children’s home
By Vaughan Stannard — April 17, 2024
(RNS) — Our aim now is to strengthen families to raise thriving children.
Reagan’s great America shining on a hill twisted into Trump’s dark vision of Christian nationalism
By Diane Winston — April 17, 2024
(The Conversation) — Reagan and Trump − two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents − used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
How can a denomination based on reconciling differences split over its disagreements?
By David Eagle — April 16, 2024
(RNS) — The United Methodist Church has to stop fracturing over sexuality and learn to live with our differences.
Indian protesters pull from poetic tradition to resist Modi’s Hindu nationalism
By Krupa Shandilya — April 16, 2024
(The Conversation) — Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
The perils and necessities of saying ‘I don’t know’
By Thomas Reese — April 15, 2024
(RNS) — In political, academic and ecclesial life, expressing uncertainty is the equivalent of committing professional suicide.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, don’t take us to Masada
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 15, 2024
(RNS) — Israel survived a night of dark fear. Let's keep it that way.
Mormonism is still growing, but slowly
By Jana Riess — April 12, 2024
(RNS) — There's something for everyone to cheer — or boo — in the most recent data on the LDS church.
How OJ Simpson changed the male-only way I talk, think and pray about God
By Joshua Hammerman — April 12, 2024
(RNS) — OJ's violence toward his wife convinced me to pursue a more gender-balanced liturgy.
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