(RNS) — This week, Jews celebrate the festival of Sukkot, dwelling in flimsy huts that remind us of both the impermanence and resilience of home. Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” which speaks to Sukkot’s theme, returned to Broadway this month. The...
(RNS) — In August, the World Methodist Council, an umbrella group of Methodist denominations, meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, elected the Rev. Debra Wallace-Padgett president of the council, making her the first woman to serve in the post. Wallace-Padgett has been...
(RNS) — As someone who looks the part of the Orthodox Jew I am — dark suit, white dress shirt, black fedora — I’ve experienced my share of hatred directed at me as a symbol of the Jewish people. But,...
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The United Methodist Church in Liberia has been roiled in recent days over its position on marriage for same-sex couples after the global denomination, based in the United States, voted to strike a 40-year-old condemnation of...
Marks a new era for spiritually rooted leadership education Kwaray is a community-based learning platform equipping rising faith leaders as they navigate an era of profound spiritual and cultural upheaval. Kwaray heralds a new day in faith leadership preparation amidst...
(The Conversation) — If you live anywhere near New York – or anywhere in the world, really – you may have seen a picture of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Yellow posters of the rabbi’s face are stuck to lampposts or...
(RNS) — In mid-September, Val Smith, chief sustainability officer at Citigroup, one of the United States’ Big Four of banking, met with four religious environmental activists to discuss the company’s record on fossil fuel investment. In 2021, Citi had pledged...
(RNS) — The school choice movement has notched some dramatic wins over the past few years. In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can’t exclude religious schools from tuition assistance programs, while programs that channel public funds into...
Not only that. Oscar Straus believed that if it could be historically proved that Jews had taken an active part in the discovery of America, “this fact would be an answer for all time to come to anti-Semitic tendencies in...
(RNS) — Shannon Evans, spirituality and culture editor at the National Catholic Reporter, was feeling disillusioned with contemporary Christian thinkers. “I had a snobby chip on my shoulder about everything that was popular and what people were reading,” Evans said...
