(RNS) — Years before she donned a rainbow-colored stole and became known as TikTok’s Rev. Karla, Karla Kamstra was a child in Kentucky falling in love with Jesus in her grandmother’s Southern Baptist church. Now an unequivocally LGBTQ+-affirming interfaith minister,...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Wellvana Interfaith Network (“WIN”), a partnership between Wellvana and faith-based communities, has launched to help primary care physicians in faith-based communities transition from volume-based healthcare (fee-for-service) to value-based care delivery to improve patient outcomes, address health...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — One can’t avoid a sense of déjà vu in Rome this week, as the everyday swarms of tourists are joined by pilgrims, pastors and prelates here for the second round of the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality,...
Celebrating the sanctity of life: Uniting online to share the humanity of the preborn and make a big statement online VANCOUVER, Wash. — For Respect Life Sunday, October 6th, Baby Life Begins is proud to launch a powerful new pro-life...
(AP) — Vermont’s Catholic church has filed for bankruptcy protection as it faces more than 30 lawsuits alleging child sex abuse by clergy decades ago, according to a filing in federal bankruptcy court. Since 2006, the Roman Catholic Diocese of...
AMMAN, Jordan (RNS) — Preparing breakfast on a recent morning, Amany Khraisat listed imported products she stopped purchasing after Oct. 7. Instead of buying American condiments, the mother of two now chooses a local Jordanian brand. Instead of a Western...
(RNS) — After more than five decades of looking at survey research, I am rarely surprised by the results when I look at a new poll. The recent Pew Research Center survey of Latin American Catholics, however, was a great...
(The Conversation) — The ancient Maya believed that everything in the universe, from the natural world to everyday experiences, was part of a single, powerful spiritual force. They were not polytheists who worshipped distinct gods but pantheists who believed that...
PALORINYA REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, Uganda (RNS) — Inside the wriggly tin walls of a small, smoke-filled kiosk, Joseph Deng Chol and his wife scoop beans onto plates warmed with freshly baked flatbreads, grateful to now have the resources to run their...
(The Conversation) — Twenty years ago, the television show “The O.C.” invented the word “Chrismukkah.” Main character Seth Cohen, played by Adam Brody, described his interfaith family’s December tradition of “eight days of presents followed by one day of lots...
