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Reproductive Rights on Trial with Skye Perryman
In the coming days, the United States Supreme Court will hear a case on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) – a federal law that guarantees all people treatment for emergency medical conditions. However,…
Photos of the Week: Australian stabbing; Middle East tensions
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes a stabbing at an Australian church, rising tensions in the Middle East and more.
The post…
Purim, Passover and the formation of memory
(RNS) — When Jews sit down for the Passover Seder, we aim to tell the story in such a way that we feel we ourselves have left Egypt. In the words of Rabbi Marc-Alain Ouaknin, “This ceremony, whose form lies somewhere between theater and…
US sanctions Israeli settler and anti-miscegenation leader
(RNS) — On Friday, the U.S. State Department announced it would impose sanctions on Ben Zion Gopstein, the leader of Lehava, an extremist group in the West Bank that advocates for preserving Jewish ethnicity in Israel.
“Under Gopstein’s…
A Muslim valedictorian is abandoned by her own university
(RNS) — Four years ago, in the beginning of the pandemic, I invited high school and college graduates to send me their speeches they would never give, as their graduation ceremonies had been obliterated by COVID-19. One high schooler…
Animal cruelty officer-turned-animal chaplain Matty Giuliano loves ferrets and St. Francis
EATONTOWN, N.J. (RNS) — Matty Giuliano is the kind of chaplain who doesn’t mind if you drop an f-bomb midsentence.
The animal cruelty officer-turned-interfaith animal chaplain from Queens, New York, wants everyone he serves to feel at…
Women Are Shaking Up the Vatican + Claire Giangravé
A synod on synodality? Sign us up!
For the past three years, the global Catholic Church has been undergoing a period of discernment. One of the main issues of contention? Women’s ordination.
Given our interest in women’s leadership in…
Does my alma mater deserve an F in antisemitism?
(RNS) — Steely Dan put it this way, singing about nostalgia for Bard College: “I’m never going back to my old school.”
Bard College is about an hour and a half north of “my old school,” SUNY Purchase. Unlike Walter and Donald, I do go…
In time for Passover, the first Ukrainian-language Haggadah goes to print
(RNS) — For centuries, Ukraine was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, but never before had the Haggadah, the Passover liturgy that millions of Jews will read around their Seder tables next week, been translated…
After traditionalist churches left, UMC may be more — not less — diverse
(RNS) — After the departure of thousands of traditionalist United Methodist churches from the denomination over the past five years, it might stand to reason that those congregations remaining in the fold are more progressive and open to…