[ad_1] (RNS) — Many people give up on religion when what they really need to do is change their image of God and how they relate to him. Too many people, when they grow older, give up on the God they learned about as children. What they really need to do is think about God […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Montgomery County, Maryland, a Washington suburb, was the most religiously diverse county in the U.S. last year, according to a census released Thursday (Aug. 29) by the Public Religion Research Institute. When PRRI did a similar study in 2020, Montgomery County came in third behind the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — I write these words on Sunday morning (Sept. 1). It was a sleepless night. At around 11:30 p.m., the phone had started buzzing on my night table. It was a text from a friend: “They murdered Hersh.” Five other hostages had also been murdered by Hamas, their bodies recovered on Saturday. It […]

[ad_1]  As book bans and religious censorship again become increasingly prevalent, America is witnessing an alarming repetition of patterns from our history. Brenda Wineapple‘s most recent book, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation, is a compelling account of censorship and successful far-right religious lobbying during the 1925 Scopes Monkey […]

[ad_1] (RNS — In sanctuaries across the United States on Sunday morning (Sept. 1), unionized workers will stand behind pulpits and contend that God is on the side of the labor movement. They believe this because the Bible tells them so. Both the Old and New Testaments are replete with warnings to those who exploit […]

[ad_1] World Religion News is proud to announce a new series: “Wikipedia Religious Un-Reliable Sources”. This investigative series delves into the complex world of Wikipedia’s policies on reliable sources, specifically examining how these policies are applied to religious and spiritual topics. Inspired by the revealing article “Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Each week RNS presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes birthdays of Lord Krishna and Saint Teresa, Arbaeen pilgrims and more. The post Photos of the Week: Krishna and Teresa birthdays; Arbaeen appeared first on Religion News Service. [ad_2]

[ad_1] A love story Introduction: Reliable Sources Wikipedia administrator David Gerard cares a great deal about Reliable Sources. For the past half-decade, he has torn through the website with dozens of daily edits—upwards of fifty thousand, all told—aimed at slashing and burning lines on the site that reference sources deemed unreliable by Wikipedia. He has […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — In journalist Joshua Leifer’s new book, a sweeping historical account of American Judaism, is an impassioned indictment of a fractured and contentious religious tradition. His central charge is that Judaism is hampered by its embrace of Zionism, which has become a substitute for the faith itself. It was therefore ironic that last […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Alicia Contreras has held sound healing sessions in the Arizona desert, in green and grassy parks, amid the stained glass of a church sanctuary and in a coffee shop. Everywhere she holds them, her crystal singing bowls produce ringing tones that reverberate over people as they lie relaxed on mats on the […]