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Aug 23, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Javier Viera |Dawn Araujo-Hawkins |Jack Jenkins |Aleja Hertzler- McCain
When Carieta Cain-Grizzell reached age 75, she had expected to retire after a lifetime as an African Methodist Episcopal Church member who became a pastor of several of its churches. Instead, the Washington, DC, native-turned-Californian is now “on loan” to the United Methodist Church, first pastoring a Fair Oaks congregation and recently appointed to one in Oakland.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Javier Viera |Dawn Araujo-Hawkins |Jack Jenkins |Aleja Hertzler- McCain
In Canto 19 of Inferno, Dante depicts the damned souls of the simoniacs—those who enriched themselves by selling sacred things—imprisoned head-down in circular holes in the rock, feet on fire. Dante despised corrupt clergy and was especially severe about sins relating to greed, so it’s no surprise that he consigned quite a few medieval popes to this section of hell. But for Dante, simony wasn’t just about greed.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Javier Viera |Dawn Araujo-Hawkins |Jack Jenkins |Aleja Hertzler- McCain
In mid-July, Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts, was transformed into a place of worship as more than 50,000 Catholics gathered for the National Eucharistic Congress. The stadium full of young people, nuns in an array of habits, and priests in black and brown faced an altar adorned with four candlesticks and a golden monstrance displaying a consecrated host for eucharistic adoration.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Javier Viera |Dawn Araujo-Hawkins |Jack Jenkins |Aleja Hertzler- McCain
During seminary, for my field education requirement I worked for a year in the chaplain’s office at a state-run residential facility for people with profound intellectual and developmental disabilities. Clusters of apartment buildings and cottages throughout the 240-acre campus provided housing and care for 500 people, many of whom had lived there for decades due to their health-care needs and our society’s general lack of proper infrastructure to support their lives elsewhere.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Claire Giangrave |Brandon Ambrosino |Dawn Araujo-Hawkins |Liuan Huska
Women have fewer high-level leadership opportunities in Asian American churches than in other churches, according to a survey from the Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity. The survey also found that men and women in Asian American churches disagree as to why women are missing in upper leadership.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Kim Samuel |Claire Giangrave |Brandon Ambrosino |Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
Kim Samuel passionately advances two linked convictions, convictions I share: that as the world continues its quest to overcome limitation, it meanwhile only exacerbates its real predicament, which is isolation; and that in cherishing the gift of one another, for which her term is belonging, lies the secret of human salvation. Her book is a compelling exploration of this argument and an urgent call to change the priorities of the human project, lest isolation engulf us all.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
rna.org | Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
Congratulations to the finalists named in this year's Religion News Association Awards for Religion Reporting Excellence.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
rna.org | Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
The Religion News Association, the premiere professional association for those who report on religion in the news, is launching a new program for emerging journalists. The cohort will meet for regular virtual events, including monthly social hours and quarterly educational sessions. It will be an opportunity for student journalists, early career journalists and second-career journalists to build camaraderie and receive insights specific to the religion beat.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
rna.org | Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
When Adelle Banks first went to work at Religion News Service (RNS) in January 1995, some of the top faith-related headlines included U.S. District Judge James Ware rejecting an attempt to keep the city of San Jose, California, from unveiling a statue of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl and leaders of several predominantly Black denominations committing to raising $5 million to assist the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in its campaign to wipe out its deficit.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
rna.org | Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
The Israel-Hamas war, along with the rise in antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents in the U.S. and around the globe, were named the top international and domestic religion stories of 2023 by members of the Religion News Association. Pope Francis was named the top religion newsmaker of the year.
