SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) — In early 2025, when Paul Taylor left the Palo Alto church he’d pastored for 18 years to focus on nonprofit work, he didn’t know where it would lead. Certainly, Taylor didn’t anticipate that, in September, he...
(RNS) — If 2025 felt like a particularly chaotic year for religion news, just wait until 2026. Some of the coming cacophony will be an extension of trends that emerged this year: the first full year of Leo’s papacy, the...
(RNS) — When I heard on Christmas Eve that Jeffrey R. Holland, 85, a beloved apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was back in the hospital, it was not a total surprise. In April 2023, we...
(RNS) — Since the Dec. 14 attack that killed 15 people at a Chabad Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been criticized for what was considered his weak approach to antisemitic incidents in the...
(RNS) — At the 2016 Al Smith Dinner, an annual fundraiser for the Archdiocese of New York that traditionally invites the presidential candidates in national election years, Cardinal Dolan sat between then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and GOP nominee Donald Trump....
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Growing up on television sound stages, David Henrie fell into what he calls the “bubblegum theory of pleasure.” “In my teen years, and my early 20s, I was just a successful child actor. I had built...
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) — The Very Rev. David Monteith has a very public role. As dean of the Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Church of England and the larger Anglican Communion, he oversees England’s oldest and grandest cathedral....
(RNS) — Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, a 38-year-old nun in the Dominican order, is often asked how she got from her upbringing in Kansas to life in a monastery in New Jersey. In a new book,...
MOSCOW, Idaho (RNS) — In 1977, Doug Wilson stepped behind the pulpit of a small Pullman, Washington, church for the first time. The 24-year-old Navy veteran, now armed with a guitar, had been leading worship at the 2-year-old congregation when...
(RNS) — When Donald Trump, speaking at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday (Dec. 2) at the White House, used the word “garbage” while discussing America’s Somalis, he wasn’t dismissing a policy concern about the immigrant community or talking about an incident...
