Opinion
The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass
By Jana Riess — May 3, 2024
(RNS) — Melissa said it's not enough to memorialize our loved ones who die too young. We have to carry on their work.
The pro-life movement in political retreat
By Mark Silk — May 3, 2024
To save their movement, student protesters should break camp
By Andre Henry — May 3, 2024
Omar Suleiman
Islam Beyond Phobia
Jonathan Merritt
On Faith and Culture
Phyllis Zagano
Just Catholic
Charles C. Camosy
Purple Catholicism
Candice Marie Benbow
Faithfully Feminist
Khyati Joshi
Living Religion
Thomas Reese
Signs of the Times
Simran Jeet Singh
Articles of Faith
Jeffrey Salkin
Martini Judaism
Mark Silk
Spiritual Politics
Jana Riess
Flunking Sainthood
Andre Henry
Written in Protest
Karen Swallow Prior
One Eye Squinted
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How ‘apocalypse’ became a secular as well as religious idea
By Erik Bleich and Christopher Star — May 3, 2024
(The Conversation) — Events that the media describe as ‘apocalyptic’ reflect changing anxieties about the future.
Since Oct. 7, we have been in an earthquake
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 3, 2024
(RNS) — More than 200 years ago, an earthquake shattered faith. We are living in similar times.
The countercultural joys of a big family
By Avi Shafran — May 2, 2024
(RNS) — Outsiders often look upon large Orthodox Jewish families with scorn, others with pity.
Renewed hopes for ecumenical date for Easter could spell end to longest-running culture war
By Katherine Kelaidis — May 2, 2024
(RNS) — The ordering of time became a fight about the ecclesiastical implications of scientific discovery and societal change.
United Methodists condemning Christian nationalism should address their complicity
By Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood — May 1, 2024
(RNS) — The thinning of the UMC’s conservative ranks makes this week’s conference a perfect time to address the issue.
The biblical character who goes ‘down the rabbit hole’ into an alternate reality − just like Alice in Wonderland
By Ryan M. Armstrong — May 1, 2024
(The Conversation) — The Book of Job and ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ both make fun of preachy know-it-alls and resist conventions of their genres.
For the ancient Maya, cracked mirrors were a path to the world beyond
By James L. Fitzsimmons — May 1, 2024
(The Conversation) — Broken mirrors can be associated with bad luck, but for the ancient Maya, a cracked mirror was often desirable.
What we have to learn from students leading the charge for justice
By Serene Jones — April 30, 2024
(RNS) — We need to be the kind of faith and public leaders we want our students to become.
Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle
By Robert P. Jones — April 30, 2024
(RNS) — The overlooked religious middle is poised to play an outsized role in the 2024 presidential contest.
Despair in the Holy Land
By Thomas Reese — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — We have to persevere for peace and have hope because the alternative is too terrible to imagine.
What didn’t happen on Passover?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — It is not only history. Read to the end for my message to the anti-Israel crowd.
Can secular health care institutions be trusted to make a moral brain death policy?
By Charles C. Camosy — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — A lack of consensus on the definition of ‘brain death’ has led to a default policy that declares living people dead.
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