How can a denomination based on reconciling differences split over its disagreements?
By David Eagle
(RNS) — The United Methodist Church has to stop fracturing over sexuality and learn to live with our differences.
The perils and necessities of saying ‘I don’t know’
By Thomas Reese
(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
(RNS) — Israel survived a night of dark fear. Let's keep it that way.
Father of boy accused of stabbing 2 Sydney clerics saw no signs of extremism, Muslim leader says
By Rod Mcguirk and Mark Baker
SYDNEY (AP) — Kheir is among several community leaders who have accused police of unnecessarily raising community tensions with a premature declaration on Tuesday that the attack at Christ the Good Shepherd Church fit the definition of a terrorist act.
Reagan’s great America shining on a hill twisted into Trump’s dark vision of Christian nationalism
By Diane Winston
(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.
Prominent New York church, sued for gender bias, moves forward with male pastor candidate
By Darren Sands
(AP) – Candidate Kevin R. Johnson, founding pastor of Dare to Imagine Church in Philadelphia, will be recommended for the congregation’s approval to lead the more than 200-year-old Abyssinian Baptist Church,
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