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In ‘Rift,’ author Cait West talks breaking free from Christian patriarchy
(RNS) — When Cait West got on a plane and left behind the Christian patriarchy movement at age 25, she hoped for a clean break.
But years of covering up her body, constantly fearing eternal damnation, being isolated from the outside…
Why you might have heard Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ at Spanish Mass
(RNS) — One song has stuck with Julio Cuellar Gonzales for practically his entire life. Among his first memories of church in the 1970s in Villa Serrano, a town in the Bolivian region of Chuquisaca, Cuellar remembers singing a specific…
Religious imagery for a spiritually syncretic era
(RNS) — When pop icon Taylor Swift disclosed her religion in the 2020 Netflix documentary “Miss Americana,” she was unambiguous.
“I live in Tennessee. I’m a Christian. That’s not what we stand for,” she said in 2018 in response to…
The Spiritual Life of Budgets: Jesse Mecham
Can a budget bring you peace?
Tom and Amber find out how with Jesse Mecham, personal finance expert and founder of the super popular YNAB (You Need A Budget) app. Jesse shares how money can help us express ourselves in the best of ways…
Conservative faith leaders praise Johnson for House’s approval of foreign aid
(RNS) — Conservative religious leaders who had been imploring Speaker Mike Johnson to back assistance for Ukraine and Israel in fighting their wars celebrated the House’s passage of foreign aid packages Saturday, clearing the way for the…
Near Chicago, a Lutheran church finds new life at the YMCA
Construction is underway on the former sanctuary of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Rockford, Ill., April 2, 2024, to become a gym in the future Good Shepherd YMCA. (RNS photo/Bob Smietana)
ROCKFORD, Ill (RNS) — In early April, just a…
UMC initiative connects people around non-church interests
Melanie Nichols, a florist instructor from Troy, North Carolina, leads a flower arrangement class, Saturday, April 13, 2024, at Randall by the River in Norwood, North Carolina. (RNS photo/Yonat Shimron)
NORWOOD, N.C. (RNS) — With…
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…