Danny Steis is the Children and Youth Pastor at Yates Baptist Church in Durham, N.C. Like so many other youth ministers, Steis was challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. “COVID Zooms were awkward. Many youth, children and families didn’t fully return,…
Haitians Are Ministering at the End of the World
Pastor Frederic Nozil has learned to keep his head down. Last year, the year he turned 53, gangs attacked his neighborhood in Pétion-Ville, a suburb overlooking Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. They ransacked the house Nozil was renting and set it on…
In time for Passover, the first Ukrainian-language Haggadah goes to print
For centuries, Ukraine was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, but never before had the Haggadah, the Passover liturgy that millions of Jews will read around their Seder tables next week, been translated into Ukrainian.
Indian protesters pull from poetic tradition to resist Modi’s Hindu nationalism
India’s government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, implemented the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, in March 2024.
How A Small Evangelical Seminary Is Defying The Odds
In an age of shrinking theological schools, Wesley Biblical Seminary is defying expectations.
A memoir explores a shattering childhood and narrow escape
“A preschooler’s hands are the perfect size for razor blades.” That’s the first line of J. Dana Trent’s searing coming-of-age memoir.
Died: Beverly LaHaye, Pastor’s Wife Who Led Religious Right
Beverly LaHaye, a timid pastor’s wife who became a fierce champion for conservative Christian politics and a force mobilizing hundreds of thousands of religious women, died on Sunday in a retirement home in El Cajon, California. She was 94.
A bill to create a national coordinator to fight antisemitism is drawing rare bipartisan support in Congress
Republicans and Democrats in Congress are uniting to pass a bill that would create a national coordinator of the fight against antisemitism — though it faces competition from another Republican-backed bill that seeks to define antisemitism.
Unfazed by danger and power, Guatemalan cardinal keeps up fight for migrants and the poor
As more than 100 men carrying an elaborate float of Jesus halted before him, Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini lost no time in calling for social justice — the hallmark of the Catholic bishop’s decades-long frontline ministry.