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Baptist leader calls denial of voting rights ‘evil’
On the day of a major voting rights debate on Capitol Hill, a social justice coordinator for the Progressive National Baptist Convention said fighting for voting rights is an effort to conquer evil...
Vatican rises to Benedict XVI’s defense after Munich abuse report
After a damaging report on clergy sexual abuse in the archdiocese headed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican on January 26 defended the emeritus pope, advis...
Claremont School of Theology ordered to offer land to neighboring colleges
According to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Claremont School of Theology must offer its Claremont, California, campus for sale to the Claremont Colleges, a neighboring consortium of schools...
Christian community in Nigeria counts losses after flood incident
When Emmanuel Nkwea left his house for his farm on a Saturday morning in September 2021, he was hoping to return with food items for his family....
Princeton Theological Seminary removes slaveholder name from chapel
Princeton Theological Seminary’s board has unanimously voted to dissociate the name of slaveholder and anti-abolitionist Samuel Miller from the school’s chapel....
Famed medieval Jewish woman recognized with new statue
She was one of the most wealthy financiers of her day, known to the kings of England and described as the most important Jewish woman of medieval England....
Global Buddhist spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh dies at 95
Thich Nhat Hanh, global Buddhist spiritual leader and longtime Vietnamese political exile, died on January 22. He was 95....
Jim Winkler resigns as head of National Council of Churches
The National Council of Churches announced on January 26 that Jim Winkler, its general secretary and president since 2013, is leaving his post....
Methodist pastor elected to interdenominational leadership in Congo
Gabriel Yemba Unda, the first United Methodist bishop of the East Congo Episcopal Area, has been elected provincial president of the Church of Christ in the Congo in the Congolese district of Manie...
The disciples’ job interview (Luke 5:1-11)
Let’s see how they measure up to Indeed.com’s suggestions.
Cultivating Christ-like compassion
We may feel compassion in our guts, but we learn it by practicing empathic solidarity.
We need a more robust theology of holy delight
Christianity is not only about pain and death. It’s about life and joy.
Episode 14: Poet and writer Kaitlin Curtice, author of Native
A conversation with author Kaitlin Curtice about poetry, women as water protectors, baptism, land acknowledgments, and more
The value of jokes in Jewish-Christian dialogue
Have you heard the one about the priest, the minister, and the rabbi?
Approaching religious pluralism through the Bible’s other brothers
Tyler Mayfield offers a fresh look at Cain, Ishmael, and Esau.
February 27, Transfiguration B (Luke 9:28-36 [37-43a])
In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus—like Moses and Elijah—is a figure of departure.
How playwright Tetsuro Shigematsu has transformed my homiletics classes
His advice: be yourself, be underprepared, be weird.
Faithful, unimportant work (Luke 4:21-30)
Jesus refuses at every turn to do something important, the things his neighbors thought he should do when he grew up.
We need a word for mothers whose children have died
Karla F. C. Holloway offers one from Sanskrit: vilomah.