(The Conversation) — For decades, winning an Olympic medal has been described as the Holy Grail of sports. Athletes aren’t the only ones in search of a Holy Grail. For example, in 2012, when physicists discovered the Higgs boson, a...
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Friday morning (Aug. 9) by 9 a.m., about 100 mostly homeless men lined up outside Oak City Cares, a multi-service nonprofit on the downtown’s edge. Anne Bazemore was there by the door to offer them a...
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Argentina's Saint Cajetan Protest, a Nagasaki remembrance and more. The post Photos of the Week: Saint Cajetan,...
(RNS) — Forgive me, but I’m still getting my head around the Republican Party adopting a platform that abandons anti-abortion positions it has sworn fealty to for decades. Sure, I know abortion has been a losing electoral issue for the...
(RNS) — In 2022, Mark Rivera, a former Anglican lay minister, was convicted of felony child sexual assault three years after a young girl told her mother that he had abused her. Months later, he pled guilty to felony sexual assault, nearly three...
(RNS) — As I write, the death toll in Gaza is nearing 40,000. The number of wounded is close to 100,000. Roughly 1,140 died in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack. This does not include the more than 600 killed in...
(RNS) — Jews have been living on an emotional roller coaster. It started on Oct. 7, Simchat Torah, a historic low in modern Jewish consciousness. Then, in recent weeks, we experienced a welcome “high.” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was under...
(RNS) — After angry crowds closed in on the prime minister’s official residence in Dhaka on Monday (Aug. 5), forcing Bangladesh’s leader, Sheikh Hasina, to resign her office after 15 years and flee to India, the ire of the protesters...
Jews have been living on an emotional roller coaster. In recent weeks, we experienced a welcome “high.” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was under serious consideration for vice president on the Democratic ticket. Then, in recent days, for many Jews,...
(RNS) — A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a former employee who claimed Ramsey Solutions, the company run by Christian personal finance guru Dave Ramsey, discriminated against him during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brad Amos, a former video...
