Lutheran Braille Workers awarded $4.45 million Lilly Endowment grant
Funding will launch “Songs of Faith, Stories of Light,” a national storytelling initiative A $4.45 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. is...
The ‘theology of showing up’ is making Minneapolis a holy...
(RNS) — I arrived in Minneapolis on Wednesday (Jan. 21). I had come because local organizers said people were being disappeared: kidnapped...
Gospel musician Richard Smallwood remembered with music-filled funeral
UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland (RNS) — Thousands of fans of gospel music giant Richard Smallwood bid him farewell in a music-filled funeral on...
We The People v Trump with Democracy Forward’s Skye Perryman
On this edition of The State of Belief, Democracy Forward President and CEO (and one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential...
Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — As she stood at the pulpit at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Thursday (Jan. 22), the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, a...
March for Life airs tensions with Trump’s ‘flexibility’ on Hyde...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Gathering for the annual March for Life on the National Mall on Friday (Jan. 23), the anti-abortion demonstrators from...
Thousands show their respect for Buddhist monks on a Walk...
APEX, N.C. (RNS) — Their bright saffron robes and shoulder bags standing out against a cloudy sky, 18 Buddhist monks walked in...
One year after she urged Trump to have mercy, Bishop...
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — Almost exactly a year ago, the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, stood in a pulpit...
Why evangelical Christians need to start talking about immigration reform
(RNS) — Working in refugee ministry, as I have for several years, will give you an appreciation for Africans’ short and pithy...
Why Islamic State group prisoners in northeast Syria are being...
BEIRUT (AP) — Recent fighting between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria got close to detention facilities where thousands...