(RNS) — It is a weekend morning in the United States and the library doors are open. A young family searches for new picture books for bedtime. An older couple arrives for their tax help appointment. A teenager slips in...
This week, host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is joined by Celina Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of the League of Women Voters. They get into the way the League’s work has evolved over the past 105 years, with a focus...
(RNS) — When it comes to going to church, a generational pattern is playing out in many households around the world: Grandparents never miss Sunday service; parents attend only on holidays; children, who describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious,”...
NEW YORK (RNS) — Nearly 700 people packed the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Saturday (Sept. 27) to witness the installation of the Rev. Winnie Varghese, the first queer woman of color...
(RNS) — When churches split from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada in 2009 to form the Anglican Church of North America, the denomination’s church leaders hoped for a fresh start. Though they had broken with their...
(RNS) — Robert Nosanchuk, senior rabbi at Mishkan Or in Beachwood, Ohio, thinks of sermons at the High Holidays like snapshots of their times: “They capture a moment in time of relationship between … the congregants, the clergy and the...
This week, host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is joined by Jonathan Jacoby, National Director of the Nexus Project. The compelling conversation highlights Jonathan’s unique insights on confronting antisemitism and fostering a pluralistic democracy. Drawing from his family history as the descendant of Holocaust...
(RNS) — Megachurch pastor Jack Graham was in the middle of his Sunday message to Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, this past weekend when he paused to cue up an unusual sermon illustration. After encouraging people to respond to...
(RNS) — A nurse’s union report says American Catholic health care giant Ascension has invested hundreds of millions of dollars of its pension fund in industries the union says are contrary to Catholic teaching. On Monday (Sept. 15), at a...
(RNS) — When immigrants detained at Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center, well known for overcrowding and harsh conditions, ask for prayer, volunteers from El Refugio don’t hesitate. The small secular nonprofit was founded in 2010 in Lumpkin, Georgia, to serve those...
