Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Kevin Sorbo join movement to ignite nationwide revival, sharing messages of hope and redemption LOS ANGELES — The team behind the upcoming national theatrical release of The Firing Squad is excited to announce the launch of...
(RNS) — Less than two weeks after many U.S. bishops made a strong show of support for the conference’s domestic anti-poverty initiative, staff members from that initiative and others were laid off on Monday (June 24) as part of a...
(RNS) — On Election Day in November 2022, Pastor Charlie Berthoud of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Madison, Wisconsin, sat at a table outside the church’s polling place and handed out treats and encouragement. “Anyone want a nonpartisan cookie?” he recalls...
(The Conversation) — K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his history. For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala. From the fifth century C.E. into the seventh century, scribes painted...
(The Conversation) — Few constitutional principles are more familiar to the average American than the separation of church and state. According to the Pew Research Center, 73% of adults agree that religion should be kept separate from government policies. To...
(Sightings) — Seventy years ago, the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag was baptized. For its first six decades, the Pledge was “godless,” going straight from “one nation” to “indivisible.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower changed that on Flag Day,...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s southern region of Dagestan held the first of three days of mourning Monday following an attack by Islamic militants who authorities say killed 20 people, mostly police, and attacked Christian and Jewish houses of worship in...
(RNS) — On Monday (June 24), we awoke to two seemingly disparate horrors. I say “seemingly” for a reason. First: the attacks on the synagogues and Orthodox churches on Sunday night in two major cities of Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim...
(RNS) — My column last week on Louisiana’s new Ten Commandments law has drawn some criticism for asserting that the state owes its legal system to the French Revolution through a reliance on the Napoleonic Code. Wasn’t Louisiana actually part...
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Within hours of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, three of Rebecca Kowalsky’s sons and two of her sons-in-law were called up for emergency military reserve duty. Released after a few months, two of the five...
