New England
In Maine, center rethinks spiritual leadership for a climate-changed world
By Marika Proctor — July 12, 2022
(RNS) — At The BTS Center, thinking about the spiritual sector's response to climate change is fueled by a common conviction: that the climate crisis is a spiritual crisis.
What Cotton Mather would tell the ‘Jesus is my vaccine’ crowd
By Peter Manseau — April 30, 2020
(RNS) — When smallpox hit Massachusetts, the Puritan clergyman began to rethink his theology of catastrophe, even when doing so meant breaking ranks with his country’s religious elite.
In New England, battling the opioid crisis with a mix of science and faith
By Amanda Greene — February 21, 2019
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (RNS) — Churches scrambling to respond to the opioid crisis have more options for training and guidance, but in many places the most precious resource is hope.
Thousands of historic Congregational documents to go online
By Jerome Socolovsky — April 9, 2018
BOSTON (AP) — With the help of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Congregational Library and Archives Hidden Histories project is locating, securing, and digitizing church records from 1630 to 1800 and putting them online for anyone to peruse for free.
In the face of unrelenting snow, New England churches soldier on
By Lauren Markoe — February 18, 2015
(RNS) Your priest will be there, even if he has to snowshoe to church.
Got religion on campus? Leave it off your resume
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — June 16, 2014
(RNS) Two new sociology studies find new graduates who included a religious mention on a resume were much less likely to hear back from potential employers.
New England’s first atheist summer camp launches, raising questions about atheist youth education
By Chris Stedman — May 5, 2014
This summer Camp Quest, a trailblazing summer camp for the children of nontheistic parents, will launch its first camp in New England. Program Director Paul Chiariello speaks with RNS about education for atheist youth and why they're not “indoctrinating” children.
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