In ordinary times, Moshe, a 38-year-old Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, Jewish Israeli, would be working while also focusing on his Torah studies.
Ecumenical ‘Exorcist’ sequel reflects profound cultural changes since the Catholic original
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: three evangelicals, an atheist, an ex-nun, and a rootworker walk into an exorcism. Fifty years after William Friedkin’s The Exorcist shocked America, director David Gordon Green has delivered a new entry to the franchise with Ellen Burstyn…
Spain’s report on Catholic Church sex abuse estimates victims could number in hundreds of thousands
Spain’s first official probe of sex abuse by clergy members or other people connected to the Catholic Church in the country included a survey that indicated that the number of victims could run into hundreds of thousands.
A Glimpse Into America’s Post-Christian Spiritual Landscape
As Americans become less affiliated with formal religion, the landscape of spirituality in the country is undergoing some peculiar transformations, according to speakers at a recent event hosted by the Institute for Human Ecology (IHE) at the Catholic University of…
How a South Dakota priest inspired 125 years of direct democracy — and the fight to preserve it
Thanks to a rabble-rousing, socialist priest, it’s a milestone year for direct democracy in the U.S. and not just because Ohio voters are circumventing their Republican-controlled legislature to decide for themselves if they have constitutional abortion rights.
How Big Is The Phenomenon Of Secular Jews And Is It Unique To Judaism?
Just a quick note for anyone looking for some data analysis about what’s happening in the Middle East right now — you aren’t going to get it from me. For a bunch of reasons.
Suffering is a feature, not a bug, of Latter-day Saint life, says author Melissa Inouye
If you’re looking for easy platitudes about why bad things happen to good Latter-day Saints, Melissa Inouye’s new book “Sacred Struggle” is probably not for you. You’re not going to find happy assurances here that God only sends the hardest…
China shows off a Tibetan boarding school that’s part of a system some see as forced assimilation
First-grade students, hands folded on their desks, watch a teacher write a brush-like stroke on a blackboard in their Tibetan alphabet. Outside, craggy mountains climb toward the brightest of blue skies. The air is clean and crisp at 2,800 meters…
Sierra Pacific Synod Bishop-Elect Talks About The ELCA’s Future And ‘Rebuilding Trust’
t was Jan. 20, 1990, and three seminarians — Jeff Johnson, Ruth Frost and Phyllis Zillhart — were to be ordained extra ordinem, meaning contrary to the official church policy, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.