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.
A Christian’s First Calling Is Never a Career
I have three adult children. In the last two months, all of them have talked to me about whether they like their jobs enough. Conversations often begin with questions, either explicit or implied, like “Am I passionate about my work?”…
To understand a faith, first understand the people who practice it
Earlier this summer, I was in Salt Lake City on production for “Undivided,” a planned new TV show about American religions that I’m hosting. In Salt Lake I met with Latter-day Saints, known widely as Mormons — a term that…
Jerusalem freezes Greek Patriarchate’s finances in latest squeeze on Holy Land Christians
The city of Jerusalem earlier this month froze the bank accounts of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the church body that represents around half of all Palestinian Christians and is a major landholder in Israel.
Christ Renews Our Minds, not Our Brains
What exactly am I? And what are you? The nature and essence of human beings is one of the most widely discussed and hotly debated topics not just of our time but arguably of all time.
2024 Election Post-Mortem: Nothing in Particulars
When I talk about the size of the “nones,” I see this really interesting conflict play out among the scores of non-religious people in the United States. Whenever I show a graph that indicates that people with the most education…
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for local homeless people, invites them to lunch at summer villa
Pope Leo XIV spent the last Sunday of his summer vacation with several dozen refugees, homeless and poor people and the church volunteers who help them, celebrating a special Mass for them and inviting them into the Vatican’s lakeside estate…