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How To Turn Shopping Stress Into Purposeful Giving During The Holidays (ANALYSIS) Every fall I anticipate the winter holidays with almost childlike joy. I look forward to familiar traditions with friends and family, eggnog in my coffee, and the sense that everyone is feeling a little lighter and more connected.
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More Than Weekly: Understanding America’s Most Devout Religious Attenders (ANALYSIS) OK, so there’s this response option to a single survey question that has intrigued me for a very long time. It’s about religious attendance. Across different surveys, the number of response options can vary. The standard is typically...
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How the Plymouth Pilgrims took over Thanksgiving – and who history left behind In some ways, Thanksgiving is a tradition that unites Americans. But the classic image of the Pilgrims obscures important parts of the country’s story.
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In God We Trusted: America Says Goodbye To The Penny The United States Mint pressed its final penny — ending more than two centuries of production for the humble one cent coin that also bore one of the country’s most enduring spiritual mottos: “In God We Trust.” The decision closes a chapter of...
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Against Authenticity: A Trans+ Take on Authoring and Acting Add excerpt here. The post Against Authenticity: A Trans+ Take on Authoring and Acting appeared first on April Online.
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What Does It Mean To Be ‘Pro-Life’ In 2025? (ANALYSIS) It would be a mistake to assume that everyone in these movements adheres to one viewpoint, or is interested only in stopping abortion. In reality, there are many motivations that lead to people using the phrase “pro-life.”
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Water Dance by Janet Maika’i Rudolph A woman’s water breaks before she gives birth. Holy water confers blessings. Water is the purifying agent of baptism. When we’re “in the flow,” we’re being creative. Water is often depicted with qualities that signify life and healing. But water is...
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Heads of major American religious traditions issue landmark statement supporting trans, intersex and nonbinary people Unitarian Universalist Association The post Heads of major American religious traditions issue landmark statement supporting trans, intersex and nonbinary people appeared first on RNS.
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Photos of the Week: World’s largest Orthodox church, Dev Deepawali (RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes opening the world's largest Orthodox church, Dev Deepawali commemorations and more. The post Photos of the Week: World’s largest Orthodox church, Dev Deepawali appeared first on RNS.
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My group of rabbis was helping Palestinian farmers. Israelis pointed guns at us. (RNS) — If our group had not consisted of American and Israeli rabbis and activists, it is likely that day could have ended with serious injuries or fatalities. The post My group of rabbis was helping Palestinian farmers. Israelis pointed guns at...
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Most Southern Baptist Pastors Offer Weekly Gospel Invitations According to a Lifeway Research study of Southern Baptist pastors commissioned by the Georgia Baptist Mission Board, 74% say they provided an opportunity for people to respond to a gospel invitation within their weekly Sunday morning worship...
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Between success and suspicion: In US and Germany, Muslims meet the moment (RNS) — Each community is in its own way slowly overcoming the respective limitations put on it by society. The post Between success and suspicion: In US and Germany, Muslims meet the moment appeared first on RNS.
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“Migration Policy behind the Veil of Ignorance: “Race” and “Religion” in the 2024 EU Migration Pact” by Ulrich Schmiedel and Dianne van den Bosch European Union Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels by Estonian Foreign Ministry (CC BY 2.0) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. The 2024 European...
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T.D. Jakes moves from pastoring to podcasting as his next focus (RNS) — The announcement of the podcast stated that Jakes will also be telling more of his own story. The post T.D. Jakes moves from pastoring to podcasting as his next focus appeared first on RNS.
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At meeting, US Catholic bishops say they oppose ‘indiscriminate mass deportation of people’ (RNS) — The bishops approved an immigration statement with 216 in favor, five opposed and three abstentions. The post At meeting, US Catholic bishops say they oppose ‘indiscriminate mass deportation of people’ appeared first on RNS.
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In Bangladesh, Intra-Muslim Conflict Results In Death And Destroyed Shrines The shrine, once crowded day and night with devotees, now stands eerily deserted. For more than a month, it has remained sealed as a crime scene after a mob attack left one of his followers dead. Since August 2024, more than 100 shrines have...
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Lessons in Community at the Lily Pond by Carolyn Lee Boyd On a recent tranquil Sunday afternoon I was wandering around a lily pond in a nearby botanical garden, fully immersed in that liminal time between summer’s outbursts of nature’s abundance and the peaceful contentment of fall. The late goldenrod and...
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Post: Tim Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director, Religion Matters Monsters and Misunderstanding: Seeing the “Other” in Frankenstein When students first meet the creature in Frankenstein, they often see a monster—grotesque, ugly, and...

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Legacy of Carol P. Christ: Was Ariadne the Most Graceful Bull-leaper of All? Deconstructing and Re-visioning Greek Mythology This post was originally published on March 3rd, 2014. Sometimes we think of Greek myth as a pre-patriarchal or less patriarchal alternative to the stories of the Bible. After all, Goddesses appear in Greek myths while they are nearly absent from...
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Episode 314: Shayna Sheinfeld – The Complicated World of Second Temple Judaism In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete Enns and Anna Sieges Beal sit down with Shayna Sheinfeld to talk about the Second Temple period, spanning from... The post Episode 314: Shayna Sheinfeld – The Complicated World of Second...
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Weak Prophecy As A Critique of Just-So Secularization Stories First, she argues that this distinction is not a historical shift from one sort of texts to another, but rather as a persistent, transhistorical tension, found both in biblical prophecies like Isaiah and Ezekiel and in modern poetry like Blake’s...
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Amid West Africa’s Coups, Faith Leaders Emerge As Pillars Of Stability In the last decade, more than a dozen coups have shaken West Africa and the Sahel. Amid this turmoil, religious leaders are emerging as stabilizers who are guiding dialogue and providing a moral compass in societies caught between soldiers and...
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Nigeria’s Christians Under Siege: Why The CPC Designation Was Long Overdue (ANALYSIS) President Trump recently designated Nigeria as a "Country of Particular Concern" under the International Religious Freedom Act. Like most of his acts, this ignited major controversy, much of it reflecting longstanding and now renewed...
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The Religious Freedom Case That’s United Both Sides Of Church-State Divide (ANALYSIS) In recent years, litigation on certain types of religious freedom lawsuits have been practically run of the mill: prayer on school premises, for example, and government funding for students at faith-based schools.
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As Violence Rages On, Nigeria’s Christians And Muslims Find Unity Through Soccer Two soccer teams — each comprised of eight Muslims and eight Christians — faced off as a mixed crowd cheered. Only months earlier, 52 people were killed in yet another religious massacre nearby. Some of the players on the field had lost...
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Knowing, and Being Known A tribute and a lament
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My Interview with Joy Reid: Unpacking the Threat of Christian Nationalism Plus, the latest episode of The Convocation Unscripted
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“Religious Liberty and Immigration: An Analysis of Recent Legal Claims” by Elizabeth Reiner Platt Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY by David Merrett (CC BY 2.0) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. This essay is an excerpt from a report...
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Coco Fusco: Poetry of Discomfort Add excerpt here. The post Coco Fusco: Poetry of Discomfort appeared first on April Online.
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On the Term Gender Order: Ignoring Feminist Insights. A few months ago at a Gender Studies M.A. Program’s state exam, my colleagues and I had an intriguing discussion about the term gender order. The sociologist within our examining group was adamant that it was a better term than patriarchy as it...
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