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Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s life work celebrating Judaism summed up in new book

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 6, 2024
(RNS) — It is the book that you need to read right now. It will change your view of Judaism and of the world itself.

Can the Catholic Church save US health care?

By Charles C. Camosy — September 5, 2024

You need to abandon God to find God

By Thomas Reese — September 3, 2024
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Trump’s Arlington affair harks back to Bill Clinton

By Mark Silk — September 3, 2024
(RNS) — Trump’s is not the first affront to the American civil religion.

I weep for the hostages and their families. I weep for all of us.

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 2, 2024
(RNS) — Our pain. Our rage. Our losses.

Why I’m voting third party

By Karen Swallow Prior — August 29, 2024
(RNS) — Voting is an investment in the long-term future of the nation, not only something that will benefit us in our own lifetimes.

Why are Mormon lifestyle influencers so popular?

By Jana Riess — August 28, 2024
(RNS) — Lifestyle influencers with ties to the LDS church navigate a tightrope between traditional and modern. And America is eating it up.

Platforming religion: The Dems’ and GOP’s official positions compared

By Mark Silk — August 28, 2024
(RNS) — What the parties have to say — and not say — on the subject as the 2024 campaign heads into the homestretch.

Remembering the Peekskill riots, a caution for the right and left

By Jeffrey Salkin — August 27, 2024
(RNS) — Decades before Charlottesville, there was Peekskill. You can still hear its echoes.

Breathe your spirit into the dry bones of your church

By Thomas Reese — August 27, 2024
(RNS) — People are leaving the church in droves. Seminaries and religious houses are closing or are half empty.

Harris promises a new way forward. Would that the pope would do the same.

By Phyllis Zagano — August 26, 2024
(RNS) — The Democratic convention brought more hope, especially to women, than Pope Francis.

The war comes home — to a Brooklyn bookstore

By Jeffrey Salkin — August 23, 2024
(RNS) — It is the antisemitism of the cool, the chic, the beautiful people. We need to call it out.

When a temple disappears

By Jeffrey Salkin — August 20, 2024
(RNS) — A sad story about a synagogue in Miami. It could happen anywhere — and it is.

If women cannot be deacons, we should stop ordaining men deacons

By Thomas Reese — August 19, 2024
(RNS) — There is nothing a deacon can do that a layperson can't.

When the reverend became a rabbi

By Jonathan Woodward — August 16, 2024
 Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A minister and a rabbi walk into a bar, and when they come out, they are the same person.
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