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...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — In a speech on religious liberty given at the Museum of the Bible on Monday (Sept. 8), President Donald Trump vowed his administration would combat “anti-Christian bias,” spurring cheers from the crowd at an event that was...
(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV inaugurated the Borgo Laudato Si’, a 135-acre space near the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo that Pope Francis dedicated to enacting principles described in his 2015 encyclical focused on the environment, “Laudato Si'” (Blessed...
(RNS) — Dr. Jasvant Modi has had a front-row seat to the growth of the Indian community in the United States since he immigrated in 1975. When he arrived, “there wasn’t a place where we could get together and celebrate...
What does it mean to build bridges amidst the turmoil of the second Trump Administration? How have interfaith communities moved forward with productive dialogue post-October 7th? Is there a more nuanced way to think about Christian Nationalism and the MAGA...
(RNS) — When an impoverished neighborhood’s biggest obstacle is its murder rate, no amount of food donations and micro-loans will alleviate suffering. Sociologist Kurt Ver Beek knows this firsthand. That’s why, when the struggling Honduran neighborhood of Nueva Suyapa was...
(RNS) — In Israel Sunday (Aug. 17), as many as 500,000 people took to the streets — the per capita equivalent of 34 million U.S. citizens protesting on the same day from Alaska to Puerto Rico. All across Israel —...
