A self-driving taxi has no passengers, so it parks itself in a lot to reduce congestion and air pollution. After being hailed, the taxi heads out to pick up its passenger – and tragically strikes a pedestrian in a crosswalk on…
Lutherans in Walz’s Minnesota put potlucks before politics during divisive election season
Serving coffee after Sunday worship outside Holden Lutheran Church, Jeff Davidson said he remains anchored in the congregation his Norwegian ancestors helped found in 1857 among cornfields because it’s “very full of very supportive people.”
Pope makes new overture to China, calling Beijing ‘a promise and hope’ for the church
Pope Francis declared Friday that China was “a promise and a hope” for the Catholic Church, offering extensive praise for Beijing at the end of a four-nation tour through Asia and again expressed hope to one day visit.
Funeral for son of Ukraine chief rabbi cited as rebuke to Putin’s claims of ‘de-nazification’
Kyiv’s Brodsky Synagogue was packed with mourners Thursday (Sept. 12) for the funeral of Anton Samborskyi, who was killed in action in Russia in August after being drafted to the Ukrainian Army.
Church attendance is (once again) correlated with authoritarianism — so why do we refuse to acknowledge it?
Since 2016, I have been arguing here at RD that former president Donald Trump’s politics, and his appeal to White evangelical Christians, are best explained through the lens of authoritarianism. Pundits initially scratched their heads for entirely too long over how evangelicals…
Ferguson activist raised in the Black Church showed pastors how to aid young protesters
As twilight descended on Ferguson, Missouri, for a third consecutive night after the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer, Gwendolyn DeLoach Packnett could no longer hold her peace.
Church seeks fairness for plans to build McKinney Texas Temple
A town council’s vote to reject the plans for the McKinney Texas Temple filed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, according to a letter to the council from…
NYC officially recognizes Landing Day, when the first Jewish community arrived in 1654
Three hundred and seventy years ago this week, a group of 23 Sephardic Jews arrived on the shores of New York — then called New Amsterdam — and created the first organized Jewish community in the city.
The bells are back at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. They’ll ring for the post-fire reopening
A convoy of trucks bearing eight restored bells — the heaviest of which weighs more than 4 tons — pulled into the huge worksite surrounding the monument Thursday on an island in the Seine River.
Leaders of white supremacist group charged for urging terrorism against Jews and other targets
The Justice Department has charged leaders of a transnational white supremacist terror group with urging their followers to commit terror attacks against Jews and other minority groups.
Meet The Swiss Guard: 500 Years Of Protecting The Papacy
The U.S. president has the Secret Service as protection. The pope has the Swiss Guard.
The God Gap in American Politics
If there’s one catch phrase in my little corner of the social science world it’s, “The God Gap.” It’s the simple idea that the Republicans have become the party of religious folks, while the Democrats are much less religiously inclined.