(RNS) — The Rev. Jerome V. Harris, a retired general officer of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, died in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 8. At his death, Harris was involved in a lawsuit with the denomination over alleged mishandling the church’s retirement pension funds. John Thomas III, a general officer of the church and the […]

This article was written by Jerry L. Wallace and is published with his permission. At around noontime, on Thursday, March 20, 1924, Ron Hubbard met in the West Wing of the White House the 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge. Many young boys of the 1920s, seeing photos of the President greeting youngsters […]

When friends level up. After you have spent most of your adult life single, as we have, you recognize the importance of building a network of friends who are more than just brunch buddies. You need those friends who send you soup when you’re sick and offer their couch for days on end after a […]

Long, long ago, in the Dreamtimes, the Rainbow Serpent awakened from the depths of the earth. As he rose and uncoiled himself, valleys, mountains and canyons formed. As he slithered about his domain, lakes, rivers and creeks appeared in his wake, providing life-giving water to the new animals of the birthing earth. If you watch the […]

(RNS) — The FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office have been asked to assist in an investigation into the death of Mica Miller, a pastor’s wife whose apparent suicide in North Carolina has been the source of fierce controversy and widespread speculation among her friends and former church community in South Carolina. “The Robeson County […]

For nearly a millennium, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Vatican have been engaged in what may be the longest-running ecumenical argument in history. A significant aspect of this divide is the calendar dispute—the Orthodox Church adheres to the Julian calendar, while Western Christianity follows the Gregorian calendar. This disagreement has turned time […]

FINLEYVILLE, Pennsylvania (RNS) — At first, the Rev. Ken Barner thought it was the sound system. Tucked in a back room just behind the sanctuary of Crossroads Ministries, Barner was preparing to enter the stage for the evening service on Saturday (May 11), when he heard what sounded like a freight train. Then the lights […]

Dear Revealer readers, Since 2020 I have been informally tracking the number of colleges and universities that have closed their religious studies departments, or stopped offering religious studies as a major, or ended their graduate programs in religion. Typically, institutions justify these closures for the same reason: not enough students are majoring in religious studies […]

(AP) – The birthday of the historical Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, known as Vesak in several countries, celebrates the birth of the child who became Prince Siddhartha around the end of the 4th century B.C. This is a holy occasion for all Buddhists, but is celebrated on different dates depending on the school of Buddhism […]

(Image source: curiouscraig.net) Miller’s Organic Farm, located outside the village of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, looks like all the other farms that dot the winding country roads surrounding it. A simple black mailbox marks its entrance, and an unassuming white house sits at the end of a long driveway, bookended by fields where handsome horses roam and […]