Religion

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) — United Methodist delegates adopted a revised definition of marriage on Thursday (May 2) at their quadrennial meeting called the General Conference and deleted from their rule book a condemnation of homosexuality…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After five days of meetings and an audience with Pope Francis in the past week (April 28-May 2), more than 200 parish priests from around the world are preparing to return home and bring the pope’s mission of…

Of course there’s one for women, too. In this episode, Katelyn joins Tyler to discuss Captivating, John and Stasi Eldredge’s attempt to do Wild at Heart for girls. We dig into the flip side of the evangelical gender binary of the early…

The virtual event for the release of the USCIRF 2024 annual report. (Video screen grab) (RNS) — An independent watchdog on religious liberty has recommended Azerbaijan be listed among the State Department’s “countries of particular…

Does money make us happy? And should happiness be our goal for a life well-lived? To find out, Amber and Tom talk with Dr. James Hollis, a renowned Jungian psychoanalyst who has written extensively about happiness, meaning and…

(RNS) — From my office at Union Theological Seminary, I have watched in the past few weeks as Columbia University’s anti-war encampments have been torn down and student demonstrators have been arrested. I’ve also watched as the…

(RNS) — It is easy to despair over the Holy Land. For almost 80 years it has been a festering sore, and today, after decades of peace efforts, there is no end in sight. After the genocide inflicted on Jews by the Nazis during World War…

(RNS) — Hollywood, the USA Gymnastics team, Penn State, the Boy Scouts: Sexual abuse has proved pervasive across institutions. And when it comes to faith groups, no creed, structure, value system or size has seemed immune. “We’ve got to…

 The U.S. is now barely six months away from the 2024 election, and division and extremism seem to be at an all-time high. Race and religion play roles in much of the rhetoric surrounding the coming vote, and whether it’s imposing…

(RNS) — Many people, and not only Catholics, are talking about the new Vatican document, “Dignitas Infinita,” or Infinite Dignity, which tackles complicated moral ideas, many of them further complicated by current political debates.  But…