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Chaldean Christian immigrant Jimmy Al-Daoud dies after US deports him to Iraq
A Chaldean Christian immigrant to the US, Jimmy Al-Daoud, who was deported to Iraq, has reportedly died because he was unable to obtain insulin to treat his diabetes....
LaKeesha Walrond assumes presidency of New York Theological Seminary
LaKeesha Walrond, 47, became president of New York Theological Seminary on June 3. She is the first woman and first African American to hold the position....
New Light Conregation rabbi Jonathan Perlman asks attorney general not to seek death for Pittsburgh mass shooter
Rabbi Jonathan Perlman and his wife, Beth Kissileff, recently penned letters to Attorney General William Barr urging him not to seek the death penalty for Robert Bowers, the alleged gunman who open...
Upstate New York camp was only US safe haven during Holocaust
Suzanne Krauthamer Gurwitz remembers little about the 18 months she spent at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Center in Oswego, New York....
Anti-Christian attacks in Nigeria threaten precarious balance of faiths
In the first weekend of August, Chidinma Ibeleji, a deaconess in the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria, was kidnapped along with four others on her way to her Pentecostal denomination’s...
Peace activists defend break-in at US Navy base
Seven Catholic peace activists who broke into a nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia, last year stood before a federal judge on August 7 to argue that the charges against them should be dis...
Christian symbol judged ‘plainly constitutional’
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a county seal that contains a cross, citing a recent Supreme Court decision as the governing precedent....
Churches are checking sex offender registry, but is it helping?
Since they were first offered an opportunity to pool their resources and buy background checks on volunteers and employees at a discount 11 years ago, about a third of Southern Baptist churches hav...
ELCA vows support for migrants
Signaling its support for immigrants, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to declare itself a “sanctuary church body” at its Churchwide Assembly in Milwaukee....
Seeing the crucified Christ in my wife’s C-section
I see love incarnate in suffering flesh, a body bearing a body in pain for love.
September 15, Ordinary 24C (Luke 15:1-10)
Not everything that’s lost can be found.
A letter from Paul to Christians in the US
Let me cut to the chase, brothers and sisters. Is this what you think living in Christ looks like?
Carried by a song of words
I read a book of poems straight through without stopping. I couldn't help it.
Can libraries save us?
What holds the world together, Eric Klinenberg believes, is social infrastructure.
In praise of Elie Wiesel
Two tributes that offer behind-the-scenes glimpses of the beloved teacher
We’re all going to die. Why is it so hard to talk about it?
Most of us don’t fear death so much as the process leading up to it.
Hearing the apostle Paul’s words in a hospital stroke unit
Struck down but not destroyed, perplexed but not forsaken