(RNS) — I’ve gotten some lovely and kind messages recently from readers who have wondered what’s going on in my life. After 12 years of mostly regular Religion News Service columns, my posts lately have been sporadic to nonexistent. So...
Religion News Service (RNS) and Interfaith America (IA) are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2024-2025 RNS/IA Religion Journalism Fellowship. Applications will close on July 17, 2024. Returning for its fourth year, the fellowship will run...
(The Conversation) — Children in American public schools traditionally learned the three R’s: reading, writing and arithmetic. Today, students in more than half of the U.S. states can study a fourth R: religion. Oklahoma is the most recent state to...
Volume one of Guite’s new epic poem, Merlin’s Isle: An Arthuriad, arrives spring 2026 – three more volumes to follow in 2027-2028 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rabbit Room Press proudly announces its partnership with globally renowned scholar and poet Malcolm Guite...
MECCA (RNS) — This year, as millions of Muslims flock to the land where Abraham once offered his greatest sacrifice in the ritual pilgrimage known as Hajj, they carry in their hearts a burden far heavier than their own sins...
(RNS) — Paul Pressler, a retired Texas judge and one of the most influential evangelicals of the past 50 years, has died. Pressler, 94, died June 7 but his death went largely unnoticed until Baptist Global News, an independent Baptist...
During Pride month, we see a lot of rhetoric of exclusion in parts of the Christian community. LGBTQ+ people can often find themselves in a space between their religious and LGBTQ+ identities. Rev. Don Abram has long been called...
(RNS) — Sure, Chief Justice John Roberts got props from liberals this week for denying that we’re a Christian nation. But over on the Christian nationalist bench, I bet they’re plenty bummed out. That’s because, for them, it’s an article...
(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis, the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca and more. The post Photos of the Week: Baptists in Indy; Muslims in Mecca appeared first on Religion News...
MAHARASHTRA, India (RNS) — At the beginning of June, Abhijit and his wife, Nikita, ran away from their village south of Mumbai to seek shelter in a safe house for interfaith couples in Pimpri, about 50 miles away. “I belong...
