Marking the Freedom to Read Day of Action, this week’s episode of The State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio program and podcast, features interviews with Qiana Johnson, Rev. Kim Coleman, and Rabba Rori Picker Neiss – influential leaders working at...
(The Conversation) — If you live anywhere near New York – or anywhere in the world, really – you may have seen a picture of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Yellow posters of the rabbi’s face are stuck to lampposts or...
In his new book, Dr. Matthew D. Taylor sheds light on the alarming rise of authoritarianism in Christian nationalist movements. In The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy, Matthew explores the rise...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As bishops and Catholic leaders gather at the Vatican for a monthlong summit on the theme of synodality, many are still left wondering what the event is actually about. On Wednesday (Oct. 9), participants at the...
(RNS) — Everyone knows the song “American Pie,” with that one line: “The day the music died.” I remember the day my music died — the music of unfettered enthusiasm for Israel’s security and for the American Jewish future. Or,...
(RNS) — Americans still feel the reverberations of Sept. 11, 2001, 23 years later. As we approach the first anniversary of Oct. 7, the Jewish people are still reeling from Hamas’ mass murders, mutilations, rapes, kidnapping and hostage-taking and the...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up a troubled visit to Belgium on Sunday by doubling down on his traditional views on women and abortion and demanding that Catholic bishops stop covering up for predator priests —...
(RNS) — Even before Hurricane Helene made landfall in the United States, near Tallahassee, Florida, on Thursday (Sept. 26), faith-based disaster groups were on the move. Disaster relief staff from the Southern Baptist Convention shipped food and other essentials to...
(NEW YORK) — The Tenement Museum in Manhattan’s Lower East Side kicked off a “Lived Religion” series on Sunday (Sept. 22) by immersing visitors into the High Holiday celebrations and shared apartments of 20th-century Eastern European Jewish immigrants. The tour...
In states and communities across the country, people of diverse religious and secular beliefs are coming together to fight for freedom of conscience for all. Many are doing it under the banner of Interfaith Alliance, organizing local affiliates to...
