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God, Death And The Right To Choose: A Religious Divide On Assisted Suicide
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (223+ words) (ANALYSIS) Several years ago, Canada began a program called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). It's a government initiative that's beginning to reshape how Canadians are facing end-of-life situations. An article published in The Atlantic in August of 2025 titled "Canada Is…...
Senegal: A Muslim Nation That's The Most Religiously Inclusive In The World
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (1032+ words) DAKAR, Senegal " Every year, between late May and early June, something happens on the 43-mile road to the Catholic sanctuary of Popenguine, outside Dakar, that is unremarkable in Senegal and extraordinary almost anywhere else: Muslim youth walk the pilgrimage route…...
Can Conservative Christians Take Back Mainline Churches?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (370+ words) When you picture an American church, what comes to mind? Is it a palatial, gothic cathedral that dwarfs its neighboring buildings and carries with it an air of ancient mystery? Is it a small, white chapel with a sharp steeple…...
Augustine: The Bad Boy Who Rewired Christianity
1+ week, 5+ day ago (567+ words) (ANALYSIS) Augustine of Hippo is one of history's great minds, which makes it all the more remarkable that he spent so many years being devious, promiscuous and extremely busy explaining why he wasn't quite ready to change. He eventually ran…...
Calendar And Cosmos Rhyme: Dantes Easter Hell Through Sin And Salvation
2+ week, 3+ day ago (559+ words) (ANALYSIS) In April 1300, Dante Alighieri stepped into a dark wood and started walking. He didn't pick that time of year by accident. Holy Week " the week Christians set aside to remember death and resurrection " is precisely when the Italian began…...
Palm Sunday Dispute Exposes Fragility Of Jerusalem's Holy Sites
2+ week, 6+ day ago (335+ words) (ANALYSIS) The episode surrounding access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is less a one-off bureaucratic dispute than a revealing case study in how wartime security, religious governance and international diplomacy intersect " and sometimes collide " in a place like…...
" Godbeat Globetrotting: 5 Memorable Moments In World Religion Reporting "
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1256+ words) MATANZAS, Cuba " I'm not a world traveler. I mean, I'm not a good world traveler. I pack too much. I'm a picky eater. Mostly, I prefer my bed at home to global adventure (unlike my colleague Erik Tryggestad, who has…...
Episcopal Church Faces Stark Demographic Reality As Membership Declines
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (382+ words) (ANALYSIS) Episcopal Church leaders have long heard warning sirens in their annual reports, with brutal statistics supporting this reality: They have lost half of their members since the 1960s. If trends continue, the mainline Anglican flock in America will lose another…...
In Order to Maintain Aging Monasteries, These Spanish Nuns Are Becoming Entrepreneurs
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (896+ words) Donate To Support Our Journalism! Faced with increasing costs, several monasteries in Spain are reinventing themselves to generate income to help maintain their historic buildings and support the resident nuns. "We had to reinvent ourselves. We cannot live only with…...
Remembering John L. Allen Jr. : A Life Spent Making Sense Of Power And Faith
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (699+ words) (ESSAY) I first came to know John L. Allen Jr. the way many people did " by trusting him. In a world where reporters cover the Vatican more like a political state rather than a religious institution, John occupied a rare space,…...