Since 2019, when Hannah-Kate Williams told her harrowing account of sexual abuse to a handful of Southern Baptist...
Aug 18, 2021
Mourning interrupted
HOUMA, La. – Monique J. Washington keeps her hair braided in tight rows, close to her head. It...
Jul 13, 2021
Separated by diaspora, modern-day healers divine the wisdom of their ancestors
Growing up, Ani Kalafian had heard stories of how her great-grandmother, an Armenian healer living in Iran, had...
May 14, 2021
57 years after MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, the Black church marches on
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” began humbly, as a few sentences...
Apr 16, 2021
Evangelical disillusionment is finding a home in book clubs
In 2016, Annelie Heinen’s frustration with evangelical culture exploded. The native Iowan had been attending evangelical churches for...
Mar 29, 2021
Ismaili, Ahmadi Muslims push national voter registration efforts
This year, the Muslim civic advocacy organization Emgage promised to turn out one million Muslim voters in the 2020 presidential...
Oct 27, 2020
For Italy’s Muslims, few mosques to pray and fewer places to bury COVID-19 dead
BERGAMO, Italy — In an entrance hall to Azzano San Paolo, Bergamo’s only Islamic cemetery, hang the names...
Aug 12, 2020
The chaplains caring for the caregivers on the front lines of COVID-19
At 5:30 each morning, Julie Bevers descends into the lobby of the New York City hotel that she...
Apr 27, 2020
Women in Muslim countries prepare for ‘least, most’ Ramadan
Three Muslim women — from Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine — reflect on how coronavirus hardships reinforce the true...
Apr 23, 2020
Indonesian Muslims brace for somber Ramadan amid pandemic restrictions
DEPOK, Indonesia (RNS) — During the fasting month of Ramadan, which begins this week, Muslims in this mostly...
Apr 22, 2020