Parkland
Watching the Parkland jury verdict was wrenching. Survivors need more agency.
By Beth Kissileff — October 19, 2022
(RNS) — I mostly felt profound grief and sadness at the haunted, broken, anguished faces of the families. I don’t think anyone else needs to experience this stress.
Crying as a spiritual discipline may change how you see the world
By Benjamin Perry — May 17, 2021
(RNS) — Our religious texts are filled with crying, usually preceding moments of great transformation.
Marjorie Taylor Greene must go — now!
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 1, 2021
(RNS) — There is a sadistic Jew-hating conspiracy theorist in Congress. Get rid of her.
How the ‘Harry Potter’ books are replacing the Bible as millennials’ foundational text
By Tara Isabella Burton — April 25, 2019
(RNS) — Engagement with the Potter texts online brought millions to the World Wide Web, which in turn has indelibly shaped our approach to self and belief.
A year after Parkland, we are all numb
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 14, 2019
On this first yahrzeit of Parkland -- God, instill within us the capacity for outrage.
The kid who didn’t attend the march because of his bar mitzvah
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 25, 2018
(RNS) — Every revolution starts with the young. This one resonated from the lips of a bar mitzvah boy.
Urged by their youth, faith groups flocked to the March for Our Lives
By Jack Jenkins — March 24, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The March for Our Lives, a protest led by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students geared toward ending gun violence, drew an estimated 800,000 participants on Saturday in Washington, D.C., according to organizers.
As a rabbi, I will violate the Sabbath to help save lives from gun violence
By Joshua Hammerman — March 20, 2018
(RNS) — Yes, this march is so important that I — a rabbi — am going to blatantly disrupt God’s holy Sabbath. But if the ancient rabbinic sages are to be believed, that’s precisely what God wants me to do.
God, guns and Gen Z
By C.S. Pearce — March 14, 2018
(RNS) — You don’t have to be clairvoyant to predict that those 'In God We Trust' signs will drive more Florida students into the nonbelievers’ camp.
And the ‘biggest post-Parkland jerk’ award goes to … Jason Chaffetz
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 2, 2018
(RNS) — Talk about insensitive.
Prayer and a packing pastor: A church’s response to mass shooting
By Yonat Shimron — February 23, 2018
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (RNS) — In this dusty crossroads town of 600 people with one blinking red light, church members have taken a starkly different approach from that of the Florida high school students agitating for change.
I have no doubt what Billy Graham would have told the high school kids from Parkland, Fla.
By Richard Mouw — February 22, 2018
(RNS) — The teens speaking out about gun control these days are amazingly articulate about being young in an America where violence is all too present as a fact of life. What would Graham have said to them? Keep at it!
How religious people should respond to the horror in Parkland
By Delta Systems — February 21, 2018
The night that my tears watered a flower.
How religious people should respond to the horror in Parkland
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 20, 2018
The night that my tears watered a flower.
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