In the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher, the Rev. Daramali Abudigin is staying on, even as random bombs, stray bullets and hunger kill members of his flock.
Oldest surviving US mosque still welcomes Muslim Americans in Iowa
The oldest surviving place of worship for Muslims in the United States is a white clapboard building on a grassy corner plot, as unassumingly Midwestern as its neighboring houses in Cedar Rapids – except for a dome.
ChatGPT Can’t Teach Us about Religion (or anything else, for that matter)
On Easter Sunday of this year, Open AI’s Large Language Model apparently developed a kind of fixation on the Virgin Mary. “If I could feel,” ChatGPT apparently told one user, “I think I’d be in awe of her.” When another user asked…
Reform movement urges against death penalty for alleged Capital Jewish Museum shooter
The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., in May.
LDS church quietly shifts its message to doubters
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints now has a new-ish suite of resources for doubters and those who love them. And they’re quite good!
The Rise of Right-Wing Nihilism
Democratic friends, let’s try a thought experiment. Imagine you woke up one morning and all your media sources were produced by Christian nationalists. You sent your kids off to school and the teachers were espousing some version of Christian nationalism. You…
Reverse discrimination? In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged
Two big assumptions underlie President Donald Trump’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The first is that discrimination against people of color is a thing of the past. The second is that DEI policies and practices discriminate against white people…
When Putin’s in Town, Alaska’s Slavic Christians Keep Praying for Peace
About ten miles from where Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage on Friday, a man speaking at New Chance Church didn’t even have to mention the presidents—or their countries—as he prayed for the ongoing talks.
Former WWII Internment Camp Turned Into Immigrant Detention Center Sparks Outrage From Activists
Advocates have raised the alarm about the harrowing similarities between the modern-day use of a $1.2 billion immigration detention center in Texas and its historical use as an incarceration camp during World War II.
Episcopal Church removes priest who founded Christian psychedelic society
In 2016, a priest in the Episcopal Church had what he described as a profound, “very Christian” encounter with psychedelics in a study on religious professionals and psilocybin. Five years later, Hunt Priest said his experience inspired him to pivot…
Ukrainian Catholics in New York find hope in solidarity with their war-torn homeland
The whispered prayers for help from mothers clutching children in Ukraine amid the boom of Russian artillery are echoed here in the United States, thousands of miles from the war-torn region, by those who still feel deeply for their homeland.
New US Postal Service stamp honors Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel
The United States Postal Service announced a new series of stamps honoring Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.