(RNS) — When Chris Scammell arrived in London in 2022 to work at an artificial-intelligence safety startup, Conjecture, he moved into a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the heart of the city. It was an apt home base for Scammell. His...
(RNS) — When the Rev. Jerry Beeson discovered financial irregularities in his new church’s bank accounts, he tried to do the right thing. In October 2024, Beeson had moved up from Texas to become pastor of Living Waters Tabernacle Church...
(RNS) — Before Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica and Haiti on Tuesday (Oct. 28), faith-based disaster relief groups were already making plans to respond. Melissa, a Category 5 storm, has already rolled over Jamaica and Cuba and caused flooding...
“The feeling of not being alone is probably one of the most powerful tools we have.” The latest episode The State of Belief features Dr. Diana Butler Bass. As an award-winning author, speaker, and theologian, Diana brings a wealth...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers descended on Palestinian olive harvesters and activists this week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, beating them with clubs in an attack Palestinian health officials said sent at least one woman to the hospital...
(RNS) — Morris Chapman, a longtime leader of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, died Monday. He was 84. “In a world where so many have fallen, he was faithful to the end,” current SBC President Clint Pressley posted on...
(RNS) — The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, a Hispanic evangelical adviser to President Donald Trump, citing significant drops in church attendance in the face of immigration raids and mass deportations, is urging government leaders to recognize the “innocent people” who are...
(RNS) — In the weeks since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, American Christians have chosen strange epitaphs to memorialize the popular conservative pundit. “If Charlie Kirk lived in the biblical times, he would have been the 13th disciple,” said U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls...
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(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...
