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We hoped for a miracle for OceanGate’s Titan crew. We ignore the ones waiting for us every…
(RNS) — Happy endings are enthralling. Novels and films are so often predicated on serendipitous salvations, unexpected escapes, miraculous rescues because we are addicted to the rush of relief — even fictional relief.
And when the peril…
Whitworth University’s new hiring policy will allow LGBTQ faculty
(RNS) — Whitworth University, a Christian school affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has revised its policies to allow for the hiring of LGBTQ faculty and to add sexual orientation to its non-discrimination statement.
In so…
Smithsonian Folklife Festival on National Mall explores often-unfamiliar spirituality
WASHINGTON (RNS) — In one corner of an array of colorful booths and tents on a hazy day in the nation’s capital, Elena Terry prepared to “celebrate the beauty of corn” through ancestral-inspired dishes like corn crepes on the first day…
A response to the unjust dismantling of affirmative action
A message from Pacific School of Religion president Rev. David Vásquez-Levy
Yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that colleges’ use of race as a factor in student admissions is unconstitutional, ignoring our country’s…
The Supreme Court rules for a designer who doesn’t want to make wedding websites for gay…
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled on Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples. One of the court’s…
Photos of the Week: Hajj pilgrimage; Peru Fishermen Day; Eid al-Adha
(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, Peruvian fishermen following Saint Peter, Eid al-Adha around the world and more.
The post Photos of the Week: Hajj pilgrimage; Peru Fishermen Day; Eid…
Catholics and Orthodox join forces for peace amid Russian and Ukrainian skeptics
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis’ envoy for peace in Ukraine returned to Rome from a three-day visit to Moscow on Thursday (June 29) after agreeing with the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill to collaborate on a peaceful resolution of…
At 79, famed SBC missionary surgeon Rebekah Naylor is about to retire. Again. But she’s not done yet
(RNS) — The first time she retired, in 2002, Dr. Rebekah Naylor, a longtime missionary surgeon, came home to Texas after 35 years in India to care for her mother, who was ailing.
Along with doing that, she joined the faculty at the…
Elevation Church quits the SBC
(RNS) — A North Carolina megachurch, known for its popular music and charismatic pastor, has left the Southern Baptist Convention.
In a letter sent to the SBC’s Executive Committee in Nashville and to the Baptist State Convention of…
Can Wicca’s two equal deities, once celebrated as revolutionary, make room for nonbinary…
Wooden figurines of the Wiccan divine couple. Photo via Etsy
(RNS) — The Great Rite, a Wiccan ritual celebrating the creative union of the masculine and feminine, commonly occurs after a priest and a priestess call in the God and the…