“I just noticed your ring.” To Maya Satnick, it had seemed like a compliment. As the first-year student walked across the campus of San Diego State University four years ago, another student, a stranger, had approached her.
In Pitch to Evangelicals, Trump Casts Himself as Christian Crusader Who Helped End Roe v. Wade
One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, former President Donald J. Trump reminded a gathering of evangelical activists in the nation’s capital how he had shaped the court’s conservative supermajority that ended nearly 50 years of constitutional…
Pittsburgh trial enters new phase: Should the synagogue shooter get the death penalty?
Prosecutors have moved to block the convicted synagogue shooter and his defense team from presenting certain evidence to the jury during the next phase of the trial, such as comparing the case to others or putting a witness on the…
What is the Hajj pilgrimage and what does it mean for Muslims?
Over 2 million Muslims will take part in this week’s Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, as one of the world’s largest religious gatherings returns to full capacity following years of coronavirus restrictions.
US Jews mourn the anniversary of the fall of Roe with a yahrzeit
U.S. Jews gathered in online forums across the country before sundown on Friday (June 23) to light a candle marking the one-year anniversary of the end of Roe v. Wade, and mourning those who have died because abortions were not…
Religion and public education: How a new charter school tests the law
More than six decades ago, a landmark United States Supreme Court decision deemed prayer in public schools unconstitutional. That hasn’t stopped other attempts to blur the line between taxpayer funding and religious education.
A Black preacher ‘no longer at war with her body’ on connecting flesh with the divine
Lyvonne Briggs describes herself as “a Black woman spiritual leader who is no longer at war with her body.” Her mission, in her new book, “Sensual Faith,” is to help other women stop being at war with their bodies too.
Muslim ‘Mother Theresa’ Receives Rare Honor: A Templeton Prize
Development economists’ debate if institutions or infrastructure are more important for a nation’s development. Edna Adan Ismail, the retired Somali politician, has done both.
Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust to open in Berlin
When Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal first talked about his dream of building Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust, most people who heard about the plan were skeptical.