(RNS) — The Rev. Tanya Lopez was sitting in her office at Downey Memorial Christian Church near Los Angeles on Wednesday (June 11) when her husband, the church’s administrative pastor, rushed in to tell her “something” was happening outside. Alarmed,...
(RNS) — Ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties in the Israeli Knesset are moving to pull their support from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition over a plan to conscript into the Israel Defense Forces tens of thousands of yeshiva students, who had...
NEW YORK (RNS) — New York City’s religious leaders gave mayoral candidates a platform to discuss their visions for the city at a forum on Thursday (June 5), at St. John the Divine Cathedral in Morningside Heights. The event, hosted...
(RNS) — As the first millennial and nonbinary archdruid of the national pagan nonprofit church, Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship, the Rev. Jan Avende is looking forward to advancing the organization’s educational initiatives and technological capabilities, among other endeavors....
This week on The State of Belief, you’ll hear a powerful conversation with Rev. Jim Wallis and host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, diving deep into his upcoming event on June 10th at the Capitol, A Pentecost Witness for a Moral...
(RNS) — The car-bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, has brought increased awareness of “antinatalism,” a movement whose proponents embrace the philosophy that human procreation is unjustifiable and wrong. Guy Edward Bartkus, the 25-year-old suspect in the...
(RNS) — When I look back on my career as a Reform rabbi, I come to the following observation: For almost half of those years, I was a Southern rabbi. I served congregations in Georgia and south Florida. Mind you:...
(RNS) — The future of a proposed homeless shelter at a New Jersey church — and the future of the church itself — remains unclear after a zoning board meeting ended without a vote. Since October, Christ Episcopal Church in...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) — Entering the Nativity Store gift shop, located around the corner from the Church of the Nativity and Manger Square, the first thing many visitors notice are its oversized photos of Pope John Paul II and...
Bourbonnais, Ill. (RNS) — The gym at the Adventure Commons was filled with sounds of pickleball — squeaking sneakers, the thwack of a paddle hitting a ball and cheers from players after a good shot. A dozen players filled three...
