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Review: Biblical Outlaws
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (1716+ words) Word&Way I have a strong love for the biblical story, which one would expect from an ordained minister. At the same time, I understand that we cannot read it flatly, believing everything is equally valid, authoritative, and true. There…...
Monthly Pentagon Worship Service Features Catholics for First Time
3+ week, 6+ day ago (222+ words) NOTE: This piece was originally published at our newsletter A Public Witness. Screengrabs as Jonathan Morris (left) preaches and military members (right) lead singing during a worship service at the Pentagon on June 24, 2026. Republican politicians like Rep. Lauren Boebert of…...
These Houses of Worship Are Older Than America. How They Outlasted Wars, Schisms and Lawsuits.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1766+ words) Such places of worship are rare. The Hartford Institute for Religion Research estimates that of the 370,000 religious congregations in the U.S. today, only about 1% existed at the country’s founding. Most of them dissolved due to internal conflicts, financial strains, aging membership…...
In His First Encyclical, Pope Leo XIV Says AI Must Serve Humanity, Not the Powerful Few
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1270+ words) VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV took direct aim at the power of Big Tech in his first encyclical on Monday (May 25), warning that artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, weakening democracy, and undermining what it means to be human. FILE:…...
Review: Feasting on Hope
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1319+ words) Word&Way Review: Feasting on Hope FEASTING ON HOPE: How God Sets a Table in the Wilderness. By Hannah Miller King. Foreword by Esau McCaulley. Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2026. 165 pages. The Lord’s Supper, also known as the Eucharist and…...
Review: Suicide and the Communion of Saints
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1354+ words) Word&Way Review: Suicide and the Communion of Saints SUICIDE AND THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS. By Rhonda Mawhood Lee. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2025. X + 128 pages. Most of us reading this book review know someone who has contemplated suicide…...
After Court Battles, Clergy Visit ICE Detainees in Illinois and Minnesota
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (931+ words) Keller and his colleagues then looked into the eyes of the detainees — some of which, he said, welled with tears — and did what they came to do: lead a brief, 15-minute Holy Thursday service, complete with prayers, Scripture readings, and…...
Inside the Effort to Organize Clergy Nationwide to Resist ICE
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (1208+ words) MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — As she stood at the pulpit at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Thursday (Jan. 22), the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, a United Church of Christ minister, looked out at the packed sanctuary with tears in her eyes. Far from the typical…...