[ad_1] (Image of Mary Baker Eddy. Image source: ligonier.org/) “It’s a good religion,” my grandmother liked to say to her daughter, my mother. Grandma Raedina was Jewish, as were all my relatives on both sides of the family. But in this case the religion she was touting wasn’t Judaism. It was Christian Science. The connection […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Paul Pressler, a retired Texas judge and one of the most influential evangelicals of the past 50 years, has died. Pressler, 94, died June 7 but his death went largely unnoticed until Baptist Global News, an independent Baptist news site, reported the news of his funeral on Saturday (June 15), held at the […]

[ad_1] (Image: Scene from Killers of the Flower Moon) “The mindless and hysterical banality of the evil presented in The Exorcist is the most terrifying thing about the film. The Americans should certainly know more about evil than that; if they pretend otherwise, they are lying, and any black man, and not only blacks—many, many […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Sure, Chief Justice John Roberts got props from liberals this week for denying that we’re a Christian nation. But over on the Christian nationalist bench, I bet they’re plenty bummed out. That’s because, for them, it’s an article of faith that the U.S. of A. is indeed a Christian nation — and […]

[ad_1] (Image source: Shutterstock) The following excerpt comes from The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Michael O. Emerson and Glenn E. Bracey II. The book explores how the majority of white Christians—based on survey data, focus groups, and interviews over years—worship within and contribute to systems of […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — In the past five years, the Reformed Church in America, one of the oldest denominations in the U.S., has lost almost half its membership and nearly a quarter of its churches. Some members see in the collapse an opportunity to reinvent the 400-year-old church, founded by Dutch settlers in the mid-1600s. “There’s […]

[ad_1] (RNS) — Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a Deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it would be like if this film was completely in sign language,” Josselyn said in a […]

[ad_1] (The Hernandez family staying at the Church of the Advocate in 2018. Image source: Sydney Schaefer / File Photo) The following excerpt comes from Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities (New York University Press, 2024) by Gina M. Pérez. The book explores the work of the new sanctuary movement and faith-based activism within […]

[ad_1] SARAJEVO, Bosnia (RNS) — Cantor Igor Bencion Kožemjakin doesn’t always know if he will have a minyan, or quorum of 10 Jews necessary to recite certain prayers in the Jewish liturgical service. But on Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, which began at sundown Tuesday (June 11), he was pretty certain he would — and […]

[ad_1] With workplace raids, family separation, detention centers, and deportations, how are religious communities responding to issues facing Latinos in the United States? Gina Pérez, author of Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities, joins us to discuss faith-based activism within Latino communities and the new sanctuary movement. We discuss the religious roots of the […]