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Multiple Catholic bishops who were seen praying over President Donald Trump in a widely shared video last week now say they felt manipulated by White House officials, with one Iowa prelate citing scripture to compare the experience to being sent as “sheep…

Two big streaming hits of the past year, Ghosts and School Spirits, feature spectral beings caught between this world and the next.

Sam Helmick, who served as 2025–2026 president of the American Library Association, is community and access services coordinator at the Iowa City Public Library.

In October 1914, a 28-year-old Swiss Reformed pastor named Karl Barth opened a newspaper and read something that would shatter his faith in the European intelligentsia.

A couple of years ago, I was privileged to be on a team in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago that helped congregations to revive their vigor.

The United Methodist Church and the Korean Methodist Church signed a mission cooperation covenant earlier this month, committing their mission agencies to annual consultations, expanded leadership exchanges and sustained cooperation in Korea, Asia, and wo…

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The Episcopal Church has found a prospective buyer for its 12-story office building in New York, New York, and is finalizing a tentative plan to move out of the longtime church headquarters, based on sale negotiations authorized on October 19 by the execu…

What’s the closest she ever came to lovebeyond the tyrannical mother who setthe agenda?

A new survey from Washington, DC-based Public Religion Research Institute has found a new dividing line among US adults ahead of the 2026 midterm elections: empathy.

A federal appeals court panel has ruled in favor of 27 ecumenical and interfaith partners in a lawsuit contesting the Trump administration’s removal of “sensitive locations” protections for houses of worship in immigration enforcement.

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When a Florida Christian organization created an initiative to provide backpacks full of necessities and comfort items to children whose parents have been detained or deported by federal immigration officials, its goal was twofold.

In this week’s epistle text, Paul is remembering people he holds dear, and the people are church people, which ought to give us hope.

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Shoshana Akua Brown was one of few students of color at her Orthodox Jewish day school in New York City in the 1990s.

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Identity or choice?

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Bill McKibben is a longtime environmental activist, the founder of Third Act, and a distinguished scholar in environmental studies at Middlebury College in Vermont.

While tidying within the Great Throne Room,An angel happened on the must-do list: ☐ Get born ☐ Keep warm ☐ Face doubts and looming doom ☐ Be miserably betrayed by one fool kiss ☐ Stand wordlessly while justice comes unglued ☐ Hang arms akimbo till the face

Shortly after October 7, 2023, a group of men at the Silver Spring Jewish Center in Maryland devised a plan to arm the synagogue during prayer services with members ready to fire a gun.

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“For a stone shall cry out from the wall.”Habakkak 2:11

A: This Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastor came from behind to win last Wednesday’s episode of Jeopardy!

Priya Parker is a facilitator, consultant, and author of the best-selling The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters.

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When my daughter was in college, she spent a couple of summers working at an upscale resort.

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Among the dismaying realizations of midlife, I have had to face the fact that I enjoy church gossip.

In the end,what becomes of us,we who saw more lightthan others,and still chose to turnaway from the cross?

Mariann Budde, who shot to fame after urging President Donald Trump to have mercy on immigrants and others, announced she plans to resign as head of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.

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2 Samuel 3:7; 21:8–11 Blood for blood.

When Adam Hamilton returned to Resurrection United Methodist Church last month, the megachurch pastor stood onstage looking almost sheepish.

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Gripping Israeli flags in Union Square, a crowd of roughly three dozen chanted “Vote him out,” as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to speak before the United Nations on Thursday.