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Bomb threats called in to 16 Jewish community centers in one day
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My time at a refugee camp in Malakasa
It was easy for me to get to Greece. But Europe's system of borderless travel only applies to some.
Being a pastor for trans people
"A trans person's story has some unique elements, but the work of pastoral care remains essentially the same."
Iconography classes draw non-Orthodox in search of spiritual images
For Lara Neri, painting icons is a kind of prayer....
Sacred and secular unite on Basque church’s walls
The Iglesia de San Miguel is the pride of Antezana de Foronda, a tiny town in Spain’s Basque Country....
Jews and Muslims join together to defend religious minorities
(The Christian Science Monitor) When Sheryl Olitzky first broached the subject of a Jewish-Muslim women’s group, Atiya Aftab didn’t bu...
What is Truth?: A Pentecostal Ethic
There are few things scarier than genuinely and openly stepping out in pursuit of truth. It is easy to be dogmatic but it is difficult to find the humility and courage necessary to begin unsettling one’s own limited understanding for something truer and purer than what we have already known.
After the journey
As I think about the Magi, I've remembered lessons about hatred and fear that I learned by traveling to Israel myself.
A few questions about baptism (Matthew 3:13–17)
Do we assume the authority of the heavens?
February 5, Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
Isaiah 58:1–12; 1 Corinthians 2:1–12; Matthew 5:13–20
A do-gooder’s tale
D. L. Mayfield wanted to help Somali refugees. She ended up mostly baking them cupcakes.
Surgeon in Burundi wins $500,000 medical missionary prize
Jason Fader, one of a dozen surgeons serving the nation of Burundi, won the first-ever Gerson L’Chaim Prize for Outstanding Christian Medical Missionary Service....
Restoration for Rio’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue
The Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro has launched an international appeal for donations to help restore Christ the Redeemer, Brazil’s 98-foot-tall statue, considered one of the modern Seven W...
How do you hold together your trans identity and your life of faith?
Nine trans Christians tell their stories.
How a toy figure of Luther sparked charges of anti-Semitism
Cloaked in black robes, Playmobil’s toy figure of Martin Luther holds a quill in one hand and his German translation of the Bible in the other....
Ta-Nehisi Coates stewards a story
The new Black Panther series uses genre conventions to say something true.
Retired Ugandan bishop seeks restorative justice for former child soldiers
Macleod Baker Ochola II, 84, a retired Anglican bishop in northern Uganda, is agitating for restorative justice in a region where the wounds of a brutal war unleashed by the Lord’s Resistance Army ...