(The Conversation) — Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon on Jan. 21, 2025, in which she appealed to President Donald Trump to have mercy toward groups frightened by his position on immigrants and LGBTQ+ people – especially children – drew...
(RNS) — A year ago, a 6-year-old girl named Hind Rajab sat in a car surrounded by the bodies of her family members, trapped in the wreckage of an Israeli strike in Gaza. For hours, she pleaded for help over...
(The Conversation) — Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its famous frescoes. We were in luck, the porter said: It was a feast day. The...
NEW YORK (AP) — A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank penned her famous diary opened in New York City on Monday as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The exhibit at the Center for Jewish...
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza’s most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the north for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas, a dramatic...
(RNS) — On the day after President Donald Trump was reelected, the Rev. Joseph Evans, a Berkeley School of Theology professor, wondered, along with some of his colleagues: “What are we going to do now?” The subsequent collaboration of more...
(RNS) — Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s plea for President Donald Trump “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now” at last week’s post-inauguration prayer service has drawn the predictable yelps. The Rev. Franklin Graham, a...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — By now, some 1 million TikTok users have viewed a video posted on the social media platform last Wednesday (Jan. 22) warning people away from the Manna Food Center distribution at Glenmont United Methodist Church, just outside...
(RNS) — Remember the 10th commandment? “Thou shalt not covet”? This past week, many preachers violated that commandment. They were coveting the sermon Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde delivered at the National Cathedral during a service the day after President Donald...
(RNS) — We don’t hear much about the pro-life movement that existed before Roe v. Wade. For anyone who wants to know about these roots of the movement, Daniel K. Williams’ excellent 2016 book on the topic is a must-read....
