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March 27, Lent 4C (Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32)
Sometimes anger is a window into what needs to be mended and healed.
“Pray for Ukraine”: Religious leaders call for peace, God’s protection
At the top of the website for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA is a simple, three-word message: “Pray for Ukraine!”...
One woman’s mission to create a thru-hiking trail in Mexico
“The most magical part of thru-hiking is the community that we share.”
When nothing matches (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21)
It’s easy to read this passage and assume it has nothing to do with us.
Shiny things (Exodus 34:29-35)
The story of Moses’ descent from Mount Sinai should be paired with the story before it.
Peru needs its Lord of Miracles now more than ever
Amid political chaos, a church mural from 1746 grounds Peruvian faith and national identity.
Lent beckons like an open door
For 40 days, we contend with our mortality so that we might know what it means to live.
Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s theology of visibility
When Asian American women are rendered invisible, the whole church is diminished.
Two tough questions at the coffee shop
Why are you still in the church? Why bother with Christianity at all?
Pfizer didn’t create its COVID vaccine alone
Yet it’s holding tight to its life-saving information—and its record-breaking profits.
March 20, Lent 3C (Luke 13:1-9)
Jesus obliterates our internal ledgers and points us to repentance.
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill is conspicuously silent on race
Mark Driscoll’s megachurch radicalized White men by weaponizing the White nuclear family.
Immigration reform no longer unites faith groups
Back in 2013, creating a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States was the rare issue that virtually all major religious groups in the United States could ...
HBCUs remain unshaken after recent bomb threats
Domestic terrorists who recently threatened to bomb nearly 20 historically Black colleges and universities utterly failed if their goal was to shake student commitment to their schools and to each ...
Conservative PAC sues Biden administration, targets liberal Catholics
The conservative political action committee CatholicVote is suing President Joe Biden’s administration in an effort to secure records of communication between the US government and Catholic groups ...
As workers seek to unionize, some clergy are filling a crucial role
Richard Smith, an Episcopal priest, has been working to improve the lot of workers in California long enough to have protested alongside Cesar Chavez in the 1970s during the lettuce strike, when Sm...
Episcopal priest helps plan interfaith prayer house in Mongolia
It might seem far-fetched for an Episcopal priest from Little Rock, Arkansas, to be working on an interfaith prayer house in Mongolia, a mostly Buddhist country....
Willie McLaurin named interim leader of SBC's executive committee
The Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee has appointed Willie McLaurin to serve as interim president and CEO, marking the first time that any entity of the predominantly White denomin...
Eritrean Orthodox patriarch dies in detention
Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on February 9 at age 94....