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...
(RNS) — More than 50 faith, civil rights and other organizations launched a joint initiative to oppose the death penalty in the United States as the groups’ leaders say they have been alarmed by increases in its use over the...
BEIRUT (RNS) — At a meeting with a head of the one of the Christian faith’s earliest communities, Pope Leo XIV addressed young Christians on Monday (Dec. 1), urging them to stay in their country despite the recurring challenges and...
(RNS) — The Maha Kumbh Mela of 2025 — the Hindu festival marking a full orbital revolution of Jupiter around the sun, occurring once every 144 years — drew an estimated 660 million pilgrims to Prayagraj, India, from around the...
(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes a pre-Advent feast and a Nepalese festival remembering departed family members. The post Photos of the Week: Pre-Advent feast, Nepalese festival appeared first on RNS. Source link...
This week on The State of Belief, host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is joined by Dr. Maria J. Stephan, co-lead and chief organizer at the Horizons Project. In the conversation, we get her expert take on the pressing issues of...
