With a phalanx of police outside its gates and student protesters crowding the street, Columbia University erupted in unrest Thursday over the Israel-Hamas war.
Animal cruelty officer-turned-animal chaplain Matty Giuliano loves ferrets and St. Francis
Matty Giuliano is the kind of chaplain who doesn’t mind if you drop an f-bomb midsentence.
Who Believes in the Prosperity Gospel?
If someone asks me who the most famous preacher in the United States is, the answer is honestly quite simple. It’s Joel Osteen, by a mile. He leads Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. His congregation meets in what used to…
‘The Hopeful,’ film about Adventist origins, debuts in theaters
A lifelong Seventh-day Adventist, Emmy Award-winning director/producer Kyle Portbury wasn’t always vocal about his faith tradition.
Finding an Uncontainable God Within Finite Poetic Spaces
Fans of the Harry Potter series might recall the magical tents from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
To one early 20th century anti-Zionist rabbi, Passover isn’t simply a celebration of freedom — it’s also a warning
For Jews, Passover is a time of liberation. The Exodus story tells the tale of a slave population liberated by divine intervention. It’s a story of hope for many persecuted peoples, including the Black Church in America, inspiring African American…
Going to the Neighborhood: Post-COVID Community-Based Youth Ministry
Danny Steis is the Children and Youth Pastor at Yates Baptist Church in Durham, N.C. Like so many other youth ministers, Steis was challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. “COVID Zooms were awkward. Many youth, children and families didn’t fully return,…
Haitians Are Ministering at the End of the World
Pastor Frederic Nozil has learned to keep his head down. Last year, the year he turned 53, gangs attacked his neighborhood in Pétion-Ville, a suburb overlooking Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. They ransacked the house Nozil was renting and set it on…
In time for Passover, the first Ukrainian-language Haggadah goes to print
For centuries, Ukraine was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, but never before had the Haggadah, the Passover liturgy that millions of Jews will read around their Seder tables next week, been translated into Ukrainian.