I’ve always found the performative use of religious language, as an excoriation or a scold, to be laughably ineffective. To call someone “godless” was a way to make me curious, not a way to convince me that someone was morally…
Are There Two Types of Gen Z When It Comes to Religion?
Every now and then someone has a somewhat original thought on Twitter. That was certainly the case a couple of weeks ago when Rachel Janfaza, who writes a newsletter called The Up and Up, posted a picture of ‘two Gen Z’s.’
Can MAGA, MAHA and Adventists make America healthy again?
Long before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on the scene — much less overseeing health and human services for the United States — Seventh-day Adventists were trying to make Americans healthy again, promoting a plant-based diet and exercise as keys…
Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw
Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who will be canonized on April 27.
Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation
Can you tell fact from fiction online? In a digital world, few questions are more important or more challenging.
Are we expecting too much of the church?
We should expect the Christian church to be a community that faithfully preaches and teaches the word of God, a place where people are safe from predators and fraudsters (or where predators and fraudsters are dealt with swiftly, justly and…
Why a Democracy Advocate in Putin’s Russia Didn’t Fear Death
He lives to trouble Vladimir Putin, the authoritarian strongman of Russia who may have had the advocate for democracy killed a little more than a year ago and who definitely had him poisoned before that.
Red Marks On Indiana Church’s Communion Wafer Are Bacteria, Not A Miracle
A laboratory analysis turned up nothing miraculous about red marks found on a Communion wafer at a Catholic church in Indiana.
Seminary Enrollment Is Up, But Some Big Seminaries Are Stalled
For more than three decades, ATS has been releasing its annual data about what is happening in the world of graduate theological education.
Kitty Dukakis, dead at 88, was the first Jewish spouse of a US presidential candidate
With Michael Dukakis poised to clinch the Democratic nomination for president in 1988, Colorado’s Jewish newspaper turned its attention to his wife.
Firm Faith Doesn’t Require a Closed Mind
“Should a Christian have an open mind?” When a student raised that question in class, I did not know how to answer at first—I felt caught between two competing convictions.
How Japanese anime draws on religious traditions to explore themes of destiny, sacrifice and the struggle between desire and duty
I have spent years studying and teaching Japanese anime, exploring how its narratives intertwine with cultural, philosophical and religious traditions. One of the most compelling aspects of Japanese anime is its ability to merge thrilling action with deep spiritual and ethical…