News analysis Archives - Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/category/news-analysis-2/ Driving essential conversation about how religion and beliefs shape us and our world. Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:13:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://religionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Favicon-100x100.png News analysis Archives - Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/category/news-analysis-2/ 32 32 Taylor Swift’s ‘TTPD’: Religious imagery for a spiritually syncretic era https://religionnews.com/2024/04/23/taylor-swifts-ttpd-religious-imagery-for-a-spiritually-syncretic-era/ https://religionnews.com/2024/04/23/taylor-swifts-ttpd-religious-imagery-for-a-spiritually-syncretic-era/#respond Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:56:51 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4144436 (RNS) — ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ speaks of good Samaritans and Jehovah’s Witnesses, altar sacrifices and prophecies. 

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/04/23/taylor-swifts-ttpd-religious-imagery-for-a-spiritually-syncretic-era/feed/ 0 RNS reporters look ahead to the big religion stories they expect in 2024 https://religionnews.com/2023/12/30/rns-reporters-look-ahead-to-the-big-religion-stories-they-expect-in-2024/ https://religionnews.com/2023/12/30/rns-reporters-look-ahead-to-the-big-religion-stories-they-expect-in-2024/#respond Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:29:19 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4125888 (RNS) — From papal reforms to psychedelics to presidential elections, here are the big religion stories RNS reporters anticipate this coming year.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2023/12/30/rns-reporters-look-ahead-to-the-big-religion-stories-they-expect-in-2024/feed/ 0 The top religion stories of 2023 https://religionnews.com/2023/12/29/the-top-religion-stories-of-2023/ https://religionnews.com/2023/12/29/the-top-religion-stories-of-2023/#respond Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:41:33 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4125826 (RNS) — Some of the year's most dramatic global events had religion at their center.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2023/12/29/the-top-religion-stories-of-2023/feed/ 0 Vatican summit tackles women’s ordination with a nod from Pope Francis https://religionnews.com/2023/10/23/vatican-summit-tackles-womens-ordination-with-a-nod-from-pope-francis/ https://religionnews.com/2023/10/23/vatican-summit-tackles-womens-ordination-with-a-nod-from-pope-francis/#respond Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:14:56 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4115723 (RNS) — The synod on synodality gets the ball rolling on the question of female clergy, but the final decision will be up to Pope Francis.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2023/10/23/vatican-summit-tackles-womens-ordination-with-a-nod-from-pope-francis/feed/ 0 Whimsical cathedrals and spiritual portals: The architecture of Paul Goesch https://religionnews.com/2023/05/03/whimsical-cathedrals-and-spiritual-portals-the-architecture-of-paul-goesch/ https://religionnews.com/2023/05/03/whimsical-cathedrals-and-spiritual-portals-the-architecture-of-paul-goesch/#respond Wed, 03 May 2023 20:43:34 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4090318 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. (RNS) — Goesch, a German expressionist architect and spiritualist, is having his first dedicated exhibition outside of Europe.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2023/05/03/whimsical-cathedrals-and-spiritual-portals-the-architecture-of-paul-goesch/feed/ 0 Deconstruction or reconstruction? Pastors discuss a reboot of evangelicalism. https://religionnews.com/2022/10/25/evangelicals-hope-to-reconstruct-a-healthier-version-of-their-faith/ https://religionnews.com/2022/10/25/evangelicals-hope-to-reconstruct-a-healthier-version-of-their-faith/#respond Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:36:20 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3999009 (RNS) — In a Chicago suburb, a group of pastors gathered to discuss evangelicalism's failings and how to repair them.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2022/10/25/evangelicals-hope-to-reconstruct-a-healthier-version-of-their-faith/feed/ 0 ‘All war is anachronistic’: Pope Francis struggles to gain traction for peaceful vision https://religionnews.com/2022/04/22/all-war-is-anachronistic-pope-francis-struggles-to-gain-traction-for-peaceful-vision/ https://religionnews.com/2022/04/22/all-war-is-anachronistic-pope-francis-struggles-to-gain-traction-for-peaceful-vision/#respond Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:19:39 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3967612 (RNS) — Pope Francis' refusal to condemn Putin by name disguises his 'severe moral judgment' of the war, experts say.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2022/04/22/all-war-is-anachronistic-pope-francis-struggles-to-gain-traction-for-peaceful-vision/feed/ 0 How to help Ukrainians today: Organizations providing aid https://religionnews.com/2022/02/25/how-to-help-ukrainians-today-organizations-providing-aid/ https://religionnews.com/2022/02/25/how-to-help-ukrainians-today-organizations-providing-aid/#respond Fri, 25 Feb 2022 23:08:11 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3958324 (RNS) — RNS has compiled a list of verified organizations — many of them religious or religiously affiliated — working to support Ukrainians right now. 

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2022/02/25/how-to-help-ukrainians-today-organizations-providing-aid/feed/ 0 To vanquish lived trauma, Netflix’s ‘Procession’ puts victims in the director’s chair https://religionnews.com/2021/11/23/to-vanquish-lived-trauma-netflixs-procession-puts-victims-in-the-directors-chair/ https://religionnews.com/2021/11/23/to-vanquish-lived-trauma-netflixs-procession-puts-victims-in-the-directors-chair/#respond Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:33:45 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3942317 (RNS) — The new documentary spotlights the practice of drama therapy, which uses role-playing to work through past trauma. 

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2021/11/23/to-vanquish-lived-trauma-netflixs-procession-puts-victims-in-the-directors-chair/feed/ 0 Britney Spears: An icon for purity culture’s wounded women https://religionnews.com/2021/08/27/britney-spears-an-icon-for-purity-cultures-wounded-women/ https://religionnews.com/2021/08/27/britney-spears-an-icon-for-purity-cultures-wounded-women/#respond Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:15:51 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=3922394 (RNS) — The trajectory of Spears' career and public persona can be understood, some scholars of evangelicalism argue, through the rise and decline of the evangelical purity movement. 

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