[ad_1] What do you do when everything falls apart? Is God really there in war, loss and grief? This is your opportunity to cover a unique event for approximately 50 women in Ukraine whose husbands risk their lives every day to help others and bring God’s comfort on the frontline of the war. These courageous […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Every Friday, Dr. Sadaf Lodhi releases a new episode of “The Muslim Sex Podcast,” in which she discusses everything from painful sex to how orgasm happens to the effects of purity culture on intimacy. In each hourlong show, Lodhi dispels stigmas attached to sex while giving listeners keys to understanding their bodies […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — One song has stuck with Julio Cuellar Gonzales for practically his entire life. Among his first memories of church in the 1970s in Villa Serrano, a town in the Bolivian region of Chuquisaca, Cuellar remembers singing a specific version of the Our Father.  At the time, Cuellar thought it was written by […]

[ad_1] An essential interfaith resource for university chaplains and spiritual leaders in higher education. NEW YORK — In June, Church Publishing will release Blessings For Your Students: Prayers for Interfaith Communities in Higher Education by Janet Fuller, the former University Chaplain and Dean of Multifaith Engagement at Elon University. In today’s world of rich diversity, university […]

[ad_1] Can a budget bring you peace? Tom and Amber find out how with Jesse Mecham, personal finance expert and founder of the super popular YNAB (You Need A Budget) app. Jesse shares how money can help us express ourselves in the best of ways – and how his own faith has helped shape his […]

[ad_1] Editor’s note: While preparing for this week’s podcast (“Carefully entering the hall of mirrors created by the ‘God Made Trump’ video”) I emailed a former GetReligionista who is way smarter than me about the Byzantine Beltway world. That would be “Mark — Mark Hemingway.” If you get that reference, you know that @Heminator knows […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — On Friday, the U.S. State Department announced it would impose sanctions on Ben Zion Gopstein, the leader of Lehava, an extremist group in the West Bank that advocates for preserving Jewish ethnicity in Israel.  “Under Gopstein’s leadership, Lehava and its members have been involved in acts or threats of violence against Palestinians, […]

[ad_1] As America’s second-oldest Lutheran college, Roanoke College in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley proclaims that it is “never sectarian” in outlook, while maintaining that “critical thinking and spiritual growth” are essential. The online spiritual-life page also offers this advice: “We encourage you to follow your own personal spiritual path while here at Roanoke.” The collage “honors […]

[ad_1]  In the coming days, the United States Supreme Court will hear a case on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) – a federal law that guarantees all people treatment for emergency medical conditions. However, anti-abortion extremists are trying to exclude pregnant people from EMTALA’s long-standing protections. This has the potential to […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Four years ago, in the beginning of the pandemic, I invited high school and college graduates to send me their speeches they would never give, as their graduation ceremonies had been obliterated by COVID-19. One high schooler responded with a speech that said, in part:  “Just like with each of the trying […]