Opinion
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.
Applying the moral wages of Watergate 50 years on
By Lovett H. Weems Jr. — August 22, 2024
(RNS) — What lessons might we draw from that scandal for our political dilemma today?
Controversy over an India Day Parade float is a slur on Hindu pride
By Suhag Shukla — August 21, 2024
(RNS) — Despite criticism of India’s new Ram temple, parade organizers were stunned at the response to the float.
Ukraine’s ban targeting Moscow-linked Orthodox Church risks US aid
By Katherine Kelaidis — August 21, 2024
(RNS) — Zelenskyy is about to test not only Ukraine’s carefully constructed global image but also its own path toward liberal democracy.
I’m an evangelical against Trump … and genocide
By Shane Claiborne — August 20, 2024
(RNS) — Like many Christians, I find myself conflicted this election season.
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.
Catholics are debating whether to remove paintings by a priest accused of abusing women − but let’s not confuse the artist and the art, writes an art historian
By Virginia Raguin — August 19, 2024
(The Conversation) — Marko Rupnik’s art is on display in many churches. Should his paintings be removed in light of recent allegations?
Who is the ‘Laughing Buddha’? A scholar of East Asian Buddhism explains
By Megan Bryson — August 19, 2024
(The Conversation) — The ‘Laughing Buddha’ shows how people have adapted Buddhism to different cultural and historical contexts.
How a movement to resist Christian nationalism took on Project 2025
By Ruth Braunstein — August 16, 2024
(RNS) — Project 2025 was the perfect test of this emerging movement’s capacity to see it, name it and fight it. And they did.
Ram Mandir in the NYC India Day Parade is a symbol of hate, not heritage
By Sunita Viswanath — August 16, 2024
(RNS) — As Indian Americans become more visible in politics and public life, there is a growing need to reflect on the kind of legacy we are building.
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.
The competing faiths of the 2024 election
By Mark Silk — August 15, 2024
(RNS) — It's Republican restorationism versus Democratic futurism.
The US has an opportunity to elect a female president. Our Scriptures would approve.
By Daisy Khan — August 15, 2024
(RNS) — A female president would confirm women’s true portrayal in our varied Scriptures.
Kamala, a common name in India, is associated with several deities and is a symbol of wisdom
By Archana Venkatesan — August 15, 2024
(The Conversation) — Kamala, a Sanskrit word for lotus, symbolizes wisdom. Its rooted in the fact that even though the flower blooms in a swamp, it remains untouched by the dirt around it.
