RELIGION

Immigration and Religious Liberty with Legal expert Elizabeth Reiner Platt

   This week, host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush had the pleasure of interviewing Elizabeth Reiner Platt, the brilliant mind…

12 months ago

What the story of the Charleston church murders teaches

(RNS) — In late April of 2015, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, senior pastor of Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church…

12 months ago

Photo Gallery: 250 years of US military chaplaincy

(RNS) — United States military chaplaincy history shown in photos. The post Photo Gallery: 250 years of US military chaplaincy…

1 year ago

Washington state shows how to botch a child protection law

(RNS) — Last week, a federal judge issued an injunction barring the state of Washington from enforcing an amendment to…

1 year ago

Johnnie Moore says embattled aid group ‘unbelievably effective,’ blames UN, Hamas for not helping Gazans

(RNS) — The Rev. Johnnie Moore, the evangelical Christian minister who chairs the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, defended the workings of…

1 year ago

For the young and Buddhist-curious, a moment of modern mindfulness

NEW YORK (RNS) — New York Zendo Shobo-ji was quiet on a Saturday morning in late June, far removed from…

1 year ago

Israeli supreme court says rabbinate must offer tests to women

(RNS) — Israel’s state rabbinate must open up its rabbinic expertise exams to women, Israel’s supreme court said on Monday…

1 year ago

Camp Mystic’s Christian sisterhood spans generations and nations

AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — Sandy Davis Kirk woke at 5 a.m. on July 4 to a roaring sound outside her…

1 year ago

On Guru Purnima, Hindus honor the teachers who shaped them

(RNS) —For Ramesh Rao, a longtime communications professor, the definition of guru — “the remover of darkness” — has been…

1 year ago

‘What makes this place magical is not the mushrooms’

COLORADO SPRINGS (RNS and NPR) — The door to the Colorado Psychedelic Church doesn’t look like much — a walkout…

1 year ago