A womanist theologian, ethicist and minister was installed as the 10th president of the Unitarian Universalist Association Sunday afternoon (June 25), following an uncontested election in which she secured 95.5% of the vote. She is both the first openly queer person…
How Christian groups helped parents pull books from some Pennsylvania school libraries
On May 12, the library coordinator for Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District sent an email to colleagues that some conservative parents and Christian advocacy groups had long prayed to see.
Tired of hiding: Jews at US colleges face rising antisemitism from left and right
“I just noticed your ring.” To Maya Satnick, it had seemed like a compliment. As the first-year student walked across the campus of San Diego State University four years ago, another student, a stranger, had approached her.
In Pitch to Evangelicals, Trump Casts Himself as Christian Crusader Who Helped End Roe v. Wade
One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, former President Donald J. Trump reminded a gathering of evangelical activists in the nation’s capital how he had shaped the court’s conservative supermajority that ended nearly 50 years of constitutional…
What is the Hajj pilgrimage and what does it mean for Muslims?
Over 2 million Muslims will take part in this week’s Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, as one of the world’s largest religious gatherings returns to full capacity following years of coronavirus restrictions.
US Jews mourn the anniversary of the fall of Roe with a yahrzeit
U.S. Jews gathered in online forums across the country before sundown on Friday (June 23) to light a candle marking the one-year anniversary of the end of Roe v. Wade, and mourning those who have died because abortions were not…
Religion and public education: How a new charter school tests the law
More than six decades ago, a landmark United States Supreme Court decision deemed prayer in public schools unconstitutional. That hasn’t stopped other attempts to blur the line between taxpayer funding and religious education.
A Black preacher ‘no longer at war with her body’ on connecting flesh with the divine
Lyvonne Briggs describes herself as “a Black woman spiritual leader who is no longer at war with her body.” Her mission, in her new book, “Sensual Faith,” is to help other women stop being at war with their bodies too.
Muslim ‘Mother Theresa’ Receives Rare Honor: A Templeton Prize
Development economists’ debate if institutions or infrastructure are more important for a nation’s development. Edna Adan Ismail, the retired Somali politician, has done both.
Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust to open in Berlin
When Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal first talked about his dream of building Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust, most people who heard about the plan were skeptical.
Train Up a Child: Ukraine’s Christian Schools Model Wartime Education
As air raid sirens blared down the hallways, Tetiana Garkun hurried her middle school students outside the My Horizons Christian School campus into the designated bomb shelter.
For church worship teams, Auto-Tune covers a multitude of sins. Especially online.
According to the Prophet Isaiah, grass withers, flowers fade, but God’s word endures.