[ad_1] (RNS) — Last summer, the film “Oppenheimer” captured audiences the world over with its depiction of the creation of the world’s first atomic bomb at New Mexico’s Los Alamos Laboratory. The Oscar-winning blockbuster went to great lengths to show the many moral struggles of those involved. To its credit, it also did not shy […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — The legions of dudes who crowded into the Great Southern Bank Arena in Springfield, Missouri, for the recent Stronger Men’s Conference, sponsored by a Pentecostal megachurch, were treated to a monster truck, a boxing match, pyrotechnics and a standoff between a pair of celebrity pastors. Women who attend James River Church’s women’s […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Many people, and not only Catholics, are talking about the new Vatican document, “Dignitas Infinita,” or Infinite Dignity, which tackles complicated moral ideas, many of them further complicated by current political debates.  But many commentaries misunderstand what the Vatican presented, or tried to present, in keeping with the philosophical and theological underpinnings […]

[ad_1] The Interdenominational Theological Center campus in Atlanta. (Image courtesy of Google Maps) (RNS) — Angelique Desiree Carney Howse has many titles: Baptist minister, health care consultant, student advocate. Come May 11, when she graduates from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, she will receive another title: Doctor. “I’m relieved because this time last year […]

[ad_1] NEW YORK (RNS) — On Thursday (April 25), Christian nationalist activist and musician Sean Feucht, pastor Russell Johnson and conservative author Eric Metaxas headed a pro-Israel rally at Columbia University in response to the “Gaza solidarity encampment” established by students a week ago. The “United for Israel” rally, advertised on social media beginning on […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — One of the largest Catholic health care systems in the U.S. will likely have to pay 33,000 of its Washington state employees more than $200 million after a Seattle jury found on April 18 that the system had illegally underpaid workers for years by rounding down their compensated hours and denying meal […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Last Friday (April 19), a sometime leader of the Proud Boys’ Maryland-D.C. chapter was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, during which he assaulted a number of Capitol police officers with a wooden pole.  Scott Miller received […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series of measures Thursday (April 25) to restructure the worldwide denomination to give each region greater equity in tailoring church life to its own customs and traditions. The primary measure, voted on as the UMC General Conference met at the Charlotte […]

[ad_1] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The University of Michigan is informing students of the rules for upcoming graduation ceremonies: Banners and flags are not allowed. Protests are OK but in designated areas away from the cap-and-gown festivities. The University of Southern California canceled a planned speech by the school’s Muslim valedictorian — and then “released” […]

[ad_1] NEW YORK (RNS) — On Tuesday (April 23), the second night of the weeklong Passover holiday, thousands of New Yorkers filled Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn for a mass Seder dinner organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. The sit-down protest, called “Seder in the Streets,” came […]