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Sep 27, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Meagan Saliashvili |Hena Khan
(RNS) — In 2017, our nation reeled from what came to be known as the “Muslim ban.” An executive order, signed by then-President Trump, barred or limited the entry of individuals from six Muslim-majority nations into the U.S.This included grandmothers from Iran, nurses from Libya and refugees from Syria. Protests erupted over the dangers of such a discriminatory policy, along with its ineffectiveness at protecting our borders.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
christiantoday.com | Meagan Saliashvili
Most American churches navigated the patchwork of COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings by periodically closing their doors and broadcasting services online instead.
But for almost half of U.S. Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons and crosses and receiving Communion from a shared spoon and chalice, liturgical services continued for anyone wanting to attend in person, according to a new study of how the denomination weathered the pandemic.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
churchleaders.com | Meagan Saliashvili
(RNS) — Most American churches navigated the patchwork of COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings by periodically closing their doors and broadcasting services online instead. But for almost half of U.S. Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons and crosses and receiving Communion from a shared spoon and chalice, liturgical services continued for anyone wanting to attend in person, according to a new study of how the denomination weathered the pandemic.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Meagan Saliashvili |Rizki Fauzi
(RNS) — Most American churches navigated the patchwork of COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings by periodically closing their doors and broadcasting services online instead. But for almost half of U.S. Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons and crosses and receiving Communion from a shared spoon and chalice, liturgical services continued for anyone wanting to attend in person, according to a new study of how the denomination weathered the pandemic.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Meagan Saliashvili
(RNS) — The new prison drama “Sing Sing” points the camera at the humanity of men who have been imprisoned, touching on themes of faith, hope, love, confession and redemption — and employs those formerly incarcerated to play on-screen versions of themselves.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Olivia Bardo |Meagan Saliashvili |Rizki Fauzi
(RNS) — Call it brat summer or a “femininomenon.” Girls are having their moment. After the June 7 release of her latest album, “brat,” the 32-year-old English dance-pop star Charli XCX started what has become known as “brat summer.”The indifference of the album artwork expresses the very nature of what it means to be brat: It’s not a big deal to be nonconforming. A brat is someone who’s a little grunge, a little bit feral. She’s chaotic and cool.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
ragazzo.substack.com | Erica Goode |Yaya Azariah Clarke |It’s Nice That |Meagan Saliashvili
Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Erica Goode, Undark“But that doesn’t mean something is wrong. ‘The problem isn’t your memory, it’s that we have the wrong expectations for what memory is for in the first place,’ Ranganath writes in his introduction, a theme that he returns to throughout the book.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
texasmonthly.com | Meagan Saliashvili
On a recent Sunday morning, parishioners shuffled into St. Jonah Orthodox Church, a beige clapboard building topped by a blue onion dome. Tucked down a wooded lane far from road noise in the Houston suburb of Spring, the house of worship drew a crowd of congregants, many of them sporting floral headscarves, chest-length beards, and cotton or gingham dresses that fell past the knee. Beeswax candles flickered in a blast of air-conditioningthat dispersed an invisible cloud of incense.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
archive.ph | Meagan Saliashvili |Peter Holley |Joshua Alvarez |Jeffrey McWhorter
On a recent Sunday morning, parishioners shuffled into St. Jonah Orthodox Church, a beige clapboard building topped by a blue onion dome. Tucked down a wooded lane far from road noise in the Houston suburb of Spring, the house of worship drew a crowd of congregants, many of them sporting floral headscarves, chest-length beards, and cotton or gingham dresses that fell past the knee. Beeswax candles flickered in a blast of air-conditioningthat dispersed an invisible cloud of incense.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
christiantoday.com | Meagan Saliashvili
Jordan Peterson, the controversial Canadian psychologist, bestselling author and champion of manhood, strode back and forth across the stage at the historic Providence Performing Arts Center in early February, matching the theater's ornate decoration with one of his characteristically flamboyant suits — a color-blocked navy, white and orange number with yellow lining.
