(RNS) — In major Latin American countries, Catholic support for ordaining women as priests has risen significantly in the last decade, while Pope Francis’ popularity has declined somewhat, according to a survey released Thursday (Sept. 26) by Pew Research Center....
Brat summer gives way to catty fall. You know that feeling when you have just SO. MUCH. TO. SAY about a particular current event but your podcast is on summer break?? Yeah, it’s the worst. Silver lining? We’ve been...
(RNS) — The other day, the news site Axios called this “the first presidential election in half a century in which neither candidate is openly telling voters much about their religion or faith.” That’s not quite true. In 2016, for...
(RNS) — At least two dozen churches in the Christian Reformed Church of North America are in the process of severing their ties with the denomination over their disagreements with its increasingly rigid stance on sexuality. Four Michigan churches have...
(RNS) — There isn’t one moment when Vice President Kamala Harris alienated Muslim American voters who have spent the past year agonizing over the plight of Palestinians in Gaza. Some point to her visit to a Detroit airport hangar in...
(RNS) — Emgage Action, a prominent Muslim American advocacy organization, has endorsed Kamala Harris for president, offering qualified support for the vice president despite broad frustration among Muslim Americans with the Biden administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. The endorsement,...
(RNS) — Since this is the season of confession, let me confess to you a journalistic error that I made. Last year, the Anti-Defamation League issued a “report card” on how colleges have been handling antisemitic incidents. At my alma...
(NEW YORK) — The Tenement Museum in Manhattan’s Lower East Side kicked off a “Lived Religion” series on Sunday (Sept. 22) by immersing visitors into the High Holiday celebrations and shared apartments of 20th-century Eastern European Jewish immigrants. The tour...
(RNS) — Court-ordered mediation between a former Southern Baptist Convention president and lawyers for the nation’s largest Protestant denomination failed last week — meaning the dispute between the two parties is likely headed to a trial in November. Hunt, a...
(RNS) — As many as 100,000 church-owned buildings are expected to be sold or repurposed by 2030, according to an analysis in a new book, “Gone for Good? Negotiating the Coming Wave of Church Property Transition.” Though Sunday attendance has...
