Wall Street Journal

Colleagues mourn the loss of Richard Gustav Niebuhr, religion journalist and professor

By Bob Smietana — November 10, 2023
(RNS) — A former national religion reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times, Niebuhr is remembered as a careful reporter and generous colleague.

Report: AME Church suspends payments to retirees, investigates missing pension funds

By Bob Smietana — March 10, 2022
(RNS) — Concerns about the AME pension fund had been circulating in recent months.

That’s Dr. Biden to you!

By Jeffrey Salkin — December 15, 2020
(RNS) — You call a professional what that person wants to be called. End of discussion.

Mormon $100B fortune offers opportunity to do more good

By Jana Riess — February 10, 2020
(RNS) — Secret fortunes. Guarded treasure. Is this what we want our religion to be known for?

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.'

Marginalizing Russell Moore is grave mistake for Southern Baptists

By Jonathan Merritt — December 20, 2016
(RNS) Southern Baptists are threatening to withhold funds from Moore's agency. But they need him more than he needs them, writes Jonathan Merritt.

COMMENTARY: An abyss of historical ignorance

By Jeffrey Weiss — January 31, 2014
(RNS) Cavalier Nazi comparisons disrespect the actual victims of the Nazis by suggesting that any perceived wrong is like the Holocaust. It's not.

Jewish groups say conspiracy theory over anti-Islam film won’t die

By Lauren Markoe — September 27, 2012

(RNS) Jewish civil rights groups are concerned that a false report blaming Jews for the anti-Islam film roiling the Muslim world won't die. By Lauren Markoe. 

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