Unspoken alliances shaping America’s political future Recent research reveals that while only 10% of Americans strongly embrace Christian nationalist views, a broader 34% sympathize with its underlying principles. Reporter Jack Jenkins joins Amanda Henderson to explore how these unspoken alliances...
(RNS) — At a Presbyterian church in Virginia, members of the small church met to prepare for the outcome of the 2024 election, praying, reading Scripture and strategizing how they will help their local community depending on who is victorious....
PHILADELPHIA (RNS) — Reuben Harley, more commonly known as Big Rube, owner of Chef Big Rube’s Kitchen in West Philadelphia, was tending to the smoked beef sandwiches, brisket and chicken on his grill late last month at the second annual...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Addressing a world faced with consumerism, division and artificial intelligence, Pope Francis urged faithful to “return to the heart” in his new encyclical, “Dilexit Nos” (“He Loved Us”), published on Thursday (Oct. 24). “In a word,...
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in Argentina in an assimilated Jewish family, Jorge Singman never had a bar mitzvah, a rite of passage when Jewish teens read from the Torah scroll in front of an entire congregation. So,...
(RNS) — On Yom Kippur, my wife and I attended the afternoon service at our local Reform synagogue as we do almost every year. During the service, the war in the Middle East was constantly on my mind, not only...
(RNS) — That must be a trick question, you say. Oct. 7 was, well, on Oct. 7. True enough. But what is the appropriate date for its commemoration? That was the question many of us were hearing, and responding to,...
LABUHAN HAJI, Indonesia (AP) — About 140 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims, mostly women and children, were on a wooden boat anchored about 1 mile (0.60 kilometers) off the coast of Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Tuesday, officials said,...
(The Conversation) — During a campaign speech in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 19, 2024, Donald Trump promised to save the country from immigrants: “I will rescue every town across America that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put...
(RNS) — “My religion is watching CNN,” a feisty elderly woman with cancer recently told a hospital chaplain who had knocked on the patient’s door to introduce himself. The patient, in a thin blue hospital gown, held her hands up...
