Roxanne Stone

New York

Managing Editor at Religion News Service

Co-Host at Saved by the City

🗞managing editor, Religion News Service (@RNS) | 🎙co-host, #SavedbytheCity podcast with @KatelynBeaty

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Articles

Q's Shift, Keller's Legacy and Our Negative World + Collin Hansen

1 week ago | religionnews.com | Roxanne Stone

Remember the Q Conference? That “cool kid” gathering with its TED-style talks on faith and culture? We do too…Founded in 2007 as a “learning community that mobilizes Christians to advance the common good,” Q was part of a broader movement of Christian cultural engagement in the mid-aughts and early teens. Much of it influenced by the late Tim Keller.
Good Breakups, Bad Makeups & the Evangelical Ex

2 weeks ago | religionnews.com | Roxanne Stone

Are you more of the heartbreaker or the heartbroken? First, we set the scene with our our most movie-worthy post-breakup moments — we’re talking ice cream binging, sad song belting, pillow weeping melt downs. Next up, we get into your break-up stories. It’s our long-awaited break-up episode and you, dear listeners, delivered. You sent in your sad stories, you sent in your sob stories, you sent in your weird stories and you sent in your evangelical stories.
The Real Trad Wives of Instagram + Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

3 weeks ago | religionnews.com | Roxanne Stone

The appeal of that trad wife life…Have you ever found yourself mid-doomscroll, suddenly enthralled by a beautiful woman baking a pie and arranging an armful of flowers freshly picked from her garden, while in the background her children play with adorable wooden toys on a natural fiber rug? You have stumbled into the trad-wife corner of the internet. Welcome. The bread is fresh and the grass is definitely greener (it’s natural fertilizer).
Five things to know about Pope Leo XIV

4 weeks ago | sltrib.com | Claire Giangrave |Roxanne Stone

Vatican City * For the second conclave in a row, the College of Cardinals shocked the watching world with its choice for the next pope. U.S. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was a long shot, precisely because he was American - conventional wisdom being that a pope should not be drawn from a global superpower.
Don't Pull a 'White Lotus.' Sacred Travel vs. Spiritual Tourism. + Pico Iyer

1 month ago | religionnews.com | Roxanne Stone

You don’t want to be THAT tourist. We all need a vacation and many of us are seeking more than rest or fun on our next getaway. Pilgrimages, retreats, wellness centers — an industry has grown up around the desire to to find transcendence — or at least a bit of mindfulness — while escaping real life. On this episode, Katelyn and Roxy explore the cringe factors inherent in spiritual tourism — selfies in temples anyone? — and the true rewards that sacred travel can offer.
Beth Allison Barr on 'Ministry by Marriage' and the Demands Placed on Pastors' Wives

1 month ago | churchleaders.com | Roxanne Stone |Katelyn Beaty

(RNS) — Did you know there are piles of guidebooks meant to help women excel at being the church’s first lady? From how to step out of a car when pulling up to church on Sunday, to preparing the perfect casserole, to keeping the kids smiling and still in the front pew. And those dirty dishes in the sink? They could be the talk of the ladies’ luncheon if you’re not careful.
Beth Allison Barr On 'Ministry By Marriage' And The Demands Placed On Pastors' Wives

1 month ago | julieroys.com | Katelyn Beaty |Roxanne Stone |Julie Roys

Did you know there are piles of guidebooks meant to help women excel at being the church’s first lady? From how to step out of a car when pulling up to church on Sunday, to preparing the perfect casserole, to keeping the kids smiling and still in the front pew. And those dirty dishes in the sink? They could be the talk of the ladies’ luncheon if you’re not careful.
Beth Allison Barr on the evolving role of pastors' wives

1 month ago | religionnews.com | Roxanne Stone

(RNS) — Did you know there are piles of guidebooks meant to help women excel at being the church’s first lady? From how to step out of a car when pulling up to church on Sunday, to preparing the perfect casserole, to keeping the kids smiling and still in the front pew. And those dirty dishes in the sink? They could be the talk of the ladies’ luncheon if you’re not careful.
Succession, Vatican Style and the Legacy of Pope Francis + Claire Giangravé

1 month ago | religionnews.com | Roxanne Stone

Pope Francis was a man of the people. Will the next pope be? After 12 years as the head of the Catholic church — and the most famous Christian in the world — Pope Francis died on Monday (April 21) at 88. A charismatic reformer, the first Latin American pope and the first Jesuit pope, Francis was beloved well beyond the Catholic church. As world leaders, Catholic faithful and cardinals from around the globe travel to the Vatican this week to mourn Francis, talk of his successor has also begun.
It's Easter. How About That Penal Substitutionary Atonement? + Brian Zahnd

1 month ago | religionnews.com | Roxanne Stone

And what’s up with all the blood? Good Friday and Easter are basically the pinnacle of the Christian calendar. What it all centers on. But in recent years we’ve seen a lot of angst over what Jesus’ death on the cross and his resurrection really mean — and if what people grew up believing about them might be all wrong. We’re talking, of course, about PSA — or penal substitutionary atonement theory.