RELIGION
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Hare Krishnas celebrate a 50-year milestone with a parade of chariots in Manhattan
(RNS) — New Yorkers expecting to see Knicks celebrations and visitors in town for the World Cup were surprised Saturday…
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Supreme Court stops execution of prison minister Jeffery Lee
(RNS) — The Supreme Court on Thursday (June 11) prevented Alabama from executing a man who became a Christian ministry…
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Willy Rice, Florida pastor and abuse crisis skeptic, elected SBC president
ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS) — A Florida pastor who has argued that the nation’s largest Protestant denomination has become too woke…
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Union Seminary’s Rev. Dr. Serene Jones
Rev. Dr. Serene Jones served as president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City for 18 years—long enough…
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We need neighbors, not just permission
(RNS) — As Jews and Muslims have just concluded the holidays of Shavuot and Eid al-Adha, I have found myself…
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Lessons in Empathy From an Unlikely Rabbi: Angela Buchdahl
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These houses of worship are older than America. How they outlasted wars, schisms and lawsuits.
(RNS) — On Ash Wednesday this year, about a dozen people attended a noon service at Boston’s Old North Church,…
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What is an encyclical? Inside Pope Leo’s urgent warning about AI and the ‘culture of power’
(RNS) — Like the encyclicals of his predecessors across the last 135 years, Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding…
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What Memorial Day once meant for us
(RNS) — I’ll rise this Memorial Day to remember W. Lloyd Warner, the distinguished anthropologist who gave us the single…
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Alan Chambers, former Exodus International leader, charged with soliciting minor
(RNS) — The former leader of a now-defunct ex-gay ministry was arrested in Florida on Tuesday morning (May 19) in…
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