New drone footage captures elusive creature in Lake Champlain, reviving hopes of Champ’s existence Champ, is that you? Since the 1600’s, tales of a mysterious sea serpent named Champ, named after explorer Samuel de Champlain, have been part of the...
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Jews around the world are attempting a difficult spiritual straddle this week: how to celebrate the joyous holiday of Simchat Torah on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre. While Oct. 7 is the day...
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...
