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...
Religion
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...
Renee Good was a martyr for her faith, like MLK, say Presbyterians
(RNS) — Less than a week after her death, Renee Good is being compared to Christian martyrs who were killed...
‘She could have been any of us’: Faith leaders mourn Renee Good in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — Earlier this week, the intersection of 34th Street and Portland Avenue was a chaotic scene of violence...
Liberal Christian denominations condemn US actions in Venezuela, call for peace
(RNS) — Four days after the U.S. military seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a strike on...
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