Church Edition + Adelle M. Banks
Boo! Church shopping is scary! What’s spookier than a coffee hour full of strangers? Katelyn is on the road toward the midwest and a new city means a new church. But how to find the perfect match? It’s no...
Religion
Meet the conservative, white religious women voting for Kamala Harris
(RNS) — Kellianne Clarke doesn’t really have time for an interview. An active member of her Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation in Chester County, Pennsylvania, she spoke to RNS earlier this month while preparing a lesson she...
An explosion of fireworks injures more than 150 people at a temple in India
NEW DELHI (AP) — A huge explosion of fireworks injured more than 150 people at a religious festival in a temple in southern India, a report said Tuesday. The explosion occurred Monday night when a fireworks storage facility near Veerarkavu...
Marvel’s series ‘Agatha All Along’ gets it right, say modern witches
(RNS) — Marvel Studios’ television series “Agatha All Along,” which has its finale on Disney+ on Wednesday (Oct. 30), oozes witchcraft lore, movie references and symbolism. And modern witches are there for it. “They are really doing their research,” said...
Pennsylvania’s recognition of Diwali as a state holiday is a big deal and long overdue
(RNS) — A native Pennsylvanian, I remember what it was like for my family to celebrate Diwali (or Deepavali, as it is also known for people of South Indian descent) at a time when Hinduism and other dharmic faiths were...
We tried Christian nationalism in America. It went badly.
NORTH MIDDLEBORO, Mass. (RNS) — The Rev. Jason Genest loves God and his church. He also loves U.S. history. Which is why he gets nervous when he hears people talk about America being founded as a Christian nation. Or wanting...
The ‘Courage Tour’ is attempting to get Christians to vote for Trump − and focused on defeating ‘demons’
(The Conversation) — As a scholar of religion, I attended the “Courage Tour,” a series of religious-political rallies, when it made a stop in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, from Sept. 27-28, 2024. From what I observed, the various speakers on the tour...
Religion in the workplace is tricky – but employers and employees lose when it becomes a total taboo
(The Conversation) — Since we spend so much of our lives at our jobs, it’s only natural that conversations with colleagues go beyond the work in front of us. People share interests and hobbies, family struggles, health concerns, and hopes...
The survey findings keeping me up at night
(RNS) — Like every other high-quality survey, the topline results of the American Values Survey from the Public Religion Research Institute show the presidential election — at the national level and in the battleground states — as a toss-up. Moreover,...
Remembering Gustavo Gutiérrez
(RNS) — On an ordinary weekday in the basement of a downtown church in Lima, Peru, in the late 1960s, a gathering of priests, most of them working in slum parishes, heard theology being done in an entirely new way:...
