Yahrzeit glasses, a kitchen mystery and a recipe for generations
(RNS and NPR) — In Jewish tradition, after someone dies, the anniversary of their death is marked by lighting a...
Religion
Multnomah gave up its campus in a failed takeover. Alums want it back.
(RNS) — Multnomah University was facing the end of its days. “We have cried, prayed, and walked a difficult path...
‘Time Hoppers’ movie a first for Muslims on the animated big screen
(RNS) — An animated film made by and for Muslims will hit hundreds of U.S. and Canadian movie theaters this...
Epstein bought Kaaba covers. What does the sacred Kiswah cloth represent?
(RNS) — Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein purchased sacred cloth that once covered the Kaaba, according to newly released files...
Moral Witness in Pressing Times
It’s not a zero-sum game. This week on The State of Belief, interfaith organizer Maggie Siddiqi makes clear that...
Jewish law forbids ‘conversion therapy’
(RNS) — A group of Orthodox rabbis from the U.S. and Israel issued a strongly worded letter condemning discredited practices...
The ‘theology of showing up’ is making Minneapolis a holy place
(RNS) — I arrived in Minneapolis on Wednesday (Jan. 21). I had come because local organizers said people were being...
Ryan Burge on ‘The Vanishing Church’ and how polarization is reshaping American faith
(RNS) — Faith communities have long been places where people with different perspectives gathered and built relationships. But today, many...
DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who...
The US — and its churches — can’t look away from MLK’s warnings about power any longer
(RNS) — Nearly six decades ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in the pulpit of Riverside Church in...
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