Religion

(RNS) — American Airlines isn’t a religious company, but if you wander around their corporate buildings you might stumble onto an ablution station for Muslim purification rituals, a Jewish employee group meeting or even Father Greg…
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CLEVELAND, Tenn. (AP) — A private Christian university is considering strictly limiting the free speech rights of its students when it comes to sexuality and gender, from how they behave to what they wear and what they can say on campus…
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(RNS) — There’s an old saying about Southern Baptists’ annual meeting: After all is said and done, more will have been said than will have been done. But last June in Nashville the Southern Baptists broke the rule as the gathered…
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Religion Communicators Council honors 19 for work during 2021 NEW YORK — The Religion Communicators Council (RCC) announces 19 Wilbur Award winners to honor excellence by individuals in the secular media for communicating religious…
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For the past three weeks, for the first time since the end of February, the biggest and boldest headlines in the New York Times have not been about Ukraine. They were about America. The threat to Roe v. Wade, with the very real…
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(The Conversation) — Is digital Buddhism, which includes computer-assisted practices such as listening to podcasts and using meditation applications apps, authentic? Some scholars have argued that digital Buddhism epitomizes Western…
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(RNS) — For decades, a handful of leaders in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination treated sexual abuse survivors as enemies of the church, denied responsibility for the actions of local churches and downplayed the number of…
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(RNS) — A prominent Boston Hispanic Pentecostal pastor, known for his church’s social programs and conservative teaching, has died, according to his church. Pastor Robert Miranda’s death was announced Sunday (May 22) during services at…
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(RNS) — When Rabbi Natanel Greenwald learned that a Jew visiting from Los Angeles needed someplace to dine for Shabbat, he extended an invitation to his home, where he was smoking a beef brisket Texas-style — and Talmud-style. Greenwald,…
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(RNS) — Since the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the U.S., legal abortions across the country have declined steadily. Public support for abortion has remained consistent, currently around 61%.…
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