(RNS) — “Let us be enraged about injustice but let us not be destroyed by it.” – Bayard Rustin As we simultaneously remembered Martin Luther King Jr. and witnessed the second inauguration of President Donald Trump this week, the challenges...
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WHEATON, Ill. (Chronicle of Philanthropy) — Every Sunday, Jacquetta Carter sets off on an unusual religious journey. Leaving her home in a middle-class neighborhood of Joliet, Illinois, Carter and her husband, Keith, drive 45 minutes north, through other western Chicago...
(RNS) — The pastor of one of the world’s largest churches had some advice for President Donald Trump as he begins his second term in office: Don’t settle for just trying to make America great or think of America’s interests...
In the days since a fragile ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and suspected Jewish settlers have rampaged through two Palestinian towns. The violence comes as Israeli...
MEGHALAYA, India (RNS) — Eight days before Christmas last year, Senseful Dkhar, a 55-year-old schoolteacher, led her fellow Catholics in prayer at a small village church in the northeastern corner of India, where the terrain changes from the lush Garo...
(RNS) — A dispute over a single word in a COVID-era relief law — and the political divides over Israel – have cost a Jewish advocacy group dearly. Jewish Voice for Peace, a Washington, D.C.-based anti-Zionist nonprofit, agreed in mid-January...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (RNS) — On a recent Tuesday morning, dozens of people affected by Hurricane Helene had already lined up outside the glass doors of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church. Inside, volunteers were squeezed into a small business office, some seated...
(RNS) — My favorite way of celebrating the new year every year is to tune into the annual “Twilight Zone” marathon on Syfy. Because they center on unchanging human fears, foibles and vices, these shows never get old. At their...
(RNS) — President Donald Trump began his second administration much as he did his first: by flouting the tenets of American civil religion that inaugural addresses traditionally embody. This failure to exhibit moral gravitas, instill civic unity and extol American...
