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Why you’re not seeing Palestinian suffering
By Omar Suleiman — October 11, 2023
(RNS) — How is the conflict in the Middle East being presented?
A controversial take: Proposing grace has a place in today’s toxic discourse
By Scot McKnight — November 9, 2021
(RNS) — CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers’ new book, ‘Saving Grace,’ is not a theological study but instead a personal, social and political proposal on how to take grace into the divisive public square.
What’s next for the US in Afghanistan? Four essential projects
By Thomas Reese — August 24, 2021
(RNS) — Now that we have lost the war in Afghanistan, there is still unfinished business with which America must deal.
Faith in numbers: Fox News is must-watch for white evangelicals, a turnoff for atheists…and Hindus, Muslims really like CNN
By Ryan Burge — May 26, 2021
(The Conversation) — Fox News viewers sway religious. A dive into who exactly is watching shows that it is a favorite among white evangelicals, Mormons and members of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
At LGBTQ forum, Democratic candidates talk God — a lot
By Jack Jenkins — October 11, 2019
"There are a lot of people in the LGBTQ community that are also people of faith. They’re religious. They believe,” said Julián Castro.
Babylon Bee, Snopes feud over fact-checking satire
By Jack Jenkins — July 31, 2019
(RNS) — The popular fact-checking site Snopes and the Babylon Bee, a religious humor site, have feuded online over the difference between 'fake news' and satire.
Pundits repent of Twitter sins, apply faith to social media
By Elizabeth E. Evans — March 13, 2019
(RNS) — Political insiders and other pundits who are public about their beliefs are taking steps to tweet, post and blog according to the tenets of their faith.
Religion journalists singing country & blues in Nashville
By Thomas Reese — September 5, 2017
(RNS) — 'There are simply fewer religion writers today. They have either been laid off or jumped ship before they got pushed out.'
The Twitterverse pounces on Reza Aslan’s firing
By Madeleine Buckley — June 13, 2017
(RNS) People expressed concern about Aslan's firing and some suggested his Muslim identity may have played a role.
Reza Aslan and the ‘pettiness of academia’
By Andrew Henry — April 14, 2017
(RNS) Translating our research to a popular audience demands a skill set above and beyond the training we receive in doctoral programs; Aslan undoubtedly excels at it.
Reza Aslan tries to make a ‘Believer’ out of everyone
By Kimberly Winston — March 3, 2017
(RNS) In his new CNN series, the best-selling author and religion scholar eats human brains, takes a dip in the dirty Ganges and dances in the street with gang members.
Donald Trump’s Holocaust aphasia
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 29, 2017
For Trump, is the Jewish nature of the Holocaust an "alternative fact?"
America is getting dumber by the minute
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 4, 2016
If you call another Jew a "kapo," you are beneath contempt.
American Muslims do report extremist threats, officials say
By RNS staff — June 16, 2016
Muslim-Americans have repeatedly informed authorities of fellow Muslims they fear might be turning to extremism, law enforcement officials say, contrary to a claim by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this week.
Poll: 29 percent still think Christian Obama is Muslim
By David Jackson — September 15, 2015
"Birthers" also hold sway with some. New survey finds 20 percent don't believe or are unsure Barack Obama was born in the U.S.
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