RELIGION

Supreme Court stops execution of prison minister Jeffery Lee

(RNS) — The Supreme Court on Thursday (June 11) prevented Alabama from executing a man who became a Christian ministry…

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Willy Rice, Florida pastor and abuse crisis skeptic, elected SBC president

ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS) — A Florida pastor who has argued that the nation’s largest Protestant denomination has become too woke…

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Union Seminary’s Rev. Dr. Serene Jones

Rev. Dr. Serene Jones served as president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City for 18 years—long enough to…

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We need neighbors, not just permission

(RNS) — As Jews and Muslims have just concluded the holidays of Shavuot and Eid al-Adha, I have found myself…

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Lessons in Empathy From an Unlikely Rabbi: Angela Buchdahl

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These houses of worship are older than America. How they outlasted wars, schisms and lawsuits.

(RNS) — On Ash Wednesday this year, about a dozen people attended a noon service at Boston’s Old North Church,…

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What is an encyclical? Inside Pope Leo’s urgent warning about AI and the ‘culture of power’

(RNS) — Like the encyclicals of his predecessors across the last 135 years, Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding…

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What Memorial Day once meant for us

(RNS) — I’ll rise this Memorial Day to remember W. Lloyd Warner, the distinguished anthropologist who gave us the single…

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Alan Chambers, former Exodus International leader, charged with soliciting minor

(RNS) — The former leader of a now-defunct ex-gay ministry was arrested in Florida on Tuesday morning (May 19) in…

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Following Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists

As an independent nonprofit, RNS believes everyone should have access to coverage of religion that is fair, thoughtful and inclusive.…

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