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Center honoring trailblazing lawyer, civil rights activist and priest opens in Durham
By Yonat Shimron — September 6, 2024
(RNS) — Known as the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, the refurbished two-story clapboard home will further the kind of progressive social causes Murray, who died in 1985, championed.
National Baptists choose Connecticut pastor Boise Kimber as next president
By Adelle M. Banks — September 6, 2024
Black church brought religion to politics in the ‘60s, but different to white Christian nationalism today
By Tobin Miller Shearer — September 6, 2024
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National Baptists hear their outgoing president and Ketanji Brown Jackson as meeting ends
By Adelle M. Banks — September 5, 2024
(RNS) — Jackson described how faith, especially instilled by her now late grandmother, had undergirded her personal and professional life.
Can the Catholic Church save US health care?
By Charles C. Camosy — September 5, 2024
(RNS) — Catholics are wonderfully suited to be the agent of change.
It’s time for Christians on all sides to talk — even debate — about what divides us
By Jim Wallis — September 5, 2024
(RNS) — We need a conversation about how our faith will factor in this election.
Study: Pro-Israel Jewish students pay a growing social price
By Yonat Shimron — September 5, 2024
(RNS) — In 2024, more than half of Jewish students said they paid a social penalty for supporting Israel’s existence, up from 34% in 2022, a new report from a Tufts University researcher finds.
As Russell M. Nelson turns 100, a look back at one of the words that will define his legacy – and the controversial term’s 200-year history
By Konden Smith Hansen — September 5, 2024
(The Conversation) — Latter-day Saints’ attitudes toward the word ‘Mormon,’ often used to describe the church, have had highs and lows − like other Americans’ often-tense relationship with the faith.
Rutgers task force report urges university to add caste discrimination ban
By Richa Karmarkar — September 4, 2024
(RNS) — Beginning in 2020 with Brandeis University, more than 20 higher education institutions across the country have followed momentum to recognize caste discrimination in their policies. But some in Hindu advocacy circles see this as a concerted attempt to negatively label one community as 'casteist.'
Trump’s die-hard support may be explained by one of his most misunderstood character traits – ‘charisma’
By Michael Scott Bryant — September 4, 2024
(The Conversation) — Throughout modern history, charismatic leaders have shown their extraordinary ability to elicit devotion to themselves and their causes.
At Quaker World Plenary, Americans are seen as key to building peace
By Bridget Moix — September 4, 2024
(RNS) — An informal survey showed how U.S. policy impacts communities around the globe.
Is Usha Vance’s Hindu identity an asset or a liability to the Trump-Vance campaign?
By Deepa Bharath — September 4, 2024
(AP) — While some political analysts say her strong presence as a Hindu American still makes the community proud, others question whether the Republican Party is really ready for a Hindu second lady.
How HIV/AIDS got its name − the words Americans used for the crisis were steeped in science, stigma and religious language
By Anthony Petro — September 4, 2024
(The Conversation) — The nascent LGBTQ+ rights movement and the Christian right each strongly shaped the early years of HIV/AIDS, a historian explains.
National Baptists hold annual meeting as leadership questions continue
By Adelle M. Banks — September 3, 2024
BALTIMORE (RNS) — The Rev. Jerry Young, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, has been president for two five-year terms and cannot run for a consecutive third term.
Catholic diocese sues US government, worried some foreign-born priests might be forced to leave
By Giovanna Dell'orto — September 3, 2024
In his own border diocese of El Paso, Texas, Bishop Mark Seitz is facing the possibility of losing priests whose permanent residency cases now have little chance to be approved before their visas expire. The law mandates them to leave the United States for at least a year.
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