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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
At Vatican, physicists and theologians join forces to answer life’s big questions
By Claire Giangravé — 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.
Members of shuttered Rwandan churches gather in homes as leaders quietly protest
By Tonny Onyulo — September 5, 2024
(RNS) — After a crackdown on unapproved churches, Christian leaders say the government's move encroaches on religious freedom and applies regulations unequally.
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.
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.'
The Meeting House, once one of Canada’s largest churches, shuts down after scandal
By Bob Smietana — September 4, 2024
(RNS) — Nine of the megachurch's satellite sites have relaunched as a network of churches with shared preaching and support services — while The Meeting House will continue to collect donations to support those congregations. The rebranding came after The Meeting House lost its liability insurance due to an abuse scandal involving former pastor Bruxy Cavey.
Want to write a hit worship song? Invite a few friends to church.
By Bob Smietana — September 4, 2024
(RNS) — When the CCLI Top 100 chart first appeared in 1988, most of the songs had one writer. Today, the average hit worship song has at least two writers — who often have ties to the so-called Big Four megachurches that dominated modern worship songs.
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.
The Black church has moved from essential to voluntary, says author Jason Shelton
By Adelle M. Banks — September 3, 2024
(RNS) — ‘Is the Black church dead? I think it really varies depending on which traditions we’re talking about,’ said Shelton, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Arlington.
In new book, journalist Joshua Leifer offers a scathing take on American Judaism
By Yonat Shimron — August 30, 2024
(RNS) — 'Tablets Shattered' is a sweeping historical account of a fractured and contentious religious establishment — much of it hampered by its embrace of Zionism.
Montgomery County, Maryland, was most religiously diverse US county in 2023
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — August 30, 2024
(RNS) — Beyond the religiously unaffiliated, which represent slightly less than 2 in 10 (17.8%) residents, the largest religious group in the county was Black Protestants, who make up 10% of the population.
Some nonprofit newspapers endorse candidates. So why can’t churches, new lawsuit asks.
By Bob Smietana — August 30, 2024
(RNS) — The federal lawsuit, filed by the National Religious Broadcasters, is the latest challenge to the so-called Johnson Amendment, which bars charitable nonprofits from taking sides in campaigns.
‘Wall of Silence,’ a podcast about abuse in ACNA, was silenced. Now, it’s back.
By Kathryn Post — August 29, 2024
(RNS) — A spokesperson said no one from ACNA’s national office had knowledge of Archbishop Beach or his staff asking for the podcast to stop.
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