Pope Leo XIV met Tuesday (Oct. 7) with a group of U.S. Latino Catholics who are working to help immigrants threatened by President Donald Trump’s deportation policies, telling them that they are not alone and that their job is now…
New Book Unearths The Lost Leadership Of Women During Early Christianity
The information we have about the role of women in ancient Christianity is limited. Among the male disciples, only two prominent figures stand out: Mary and Mary Magdalene. Overall, women’s participation in church leadership has been restricted, and the appointment…
Kinship. Apathy. Disgust. U.S. Jews on post-2023 Israel.
The two years of war in Gaza and the attacks in Israel, and the world’s reaction to them, have angered, confused, devastated and challenged many American Jews.
From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country
In October 2025, Cecil Roberts will officially retire from his role as president of the United Mine Workers of America. A sixth-generation coal miner, he has led the union for 30 years. Only one man held the role longer: John L. Lewis, whom…
Tom Brady and Michael Strahan’s Religion of Sports developing trivia game show
A new sports trivia game is being developed for television by Religion of Sports, a company founded by Gotham Chopra and NFL legends Tom Brady and Michael Strahan.
Pope Leo Issues Pointed Message About Immigrants After Donald Trump Critique
Pope Leo urged the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump’s hard-line anti-immigration policies.
How ‘holding space’ became a post-Oct. 7 mantra of grief and comfort
As Sukkot and the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks approached, I received separate emails from two different Jewish organizations with what to me was an unfamiliar use of the word “holding.”
From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country
In October 2025, Cecil Roberts will officially retire from his role as president of the United Mine Workers of America. A sixth-generation coal miner, he has led the union for 30 years. Only one man held the role longer: John L. Lewis, whom…
Students in Texas Need Something, but It’s Not the Ten Commandments
Should the Ten Commandments hang beside every chalkboard? Should public schools set aside time each day for students to recite the Lord’s Prayer?
Wendell Berry’s Grief and Gratitude
An elderly woman once told me she was making a long trip back to her hometown for the little community’s autumn apple festival. She had returned many times for the festival—an annual ritual of her girlhood and young adulthood—but this…
Largest US Lutheran denomination installs Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed the Rev. Yehiel Curry as its first Black presiding bishop Saturday, a landmark moment for the predominantly white denomination.
Holy Land’s top Catholic leader calls on Christians to help build bridges in the Gaza conflict
As talks got underway Monday to end the war in Gaza, the top Catholic leader in the Holy Land called on Christians in the region to be a bridge and help restore trust between Israelis and Palestinians.