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10 years later, Pope Francis' Laudato si' is more relevant than ever

4 days ago | religionnews.com | Thomas Reese

(RNS) — With all that happened in the Catholic Church last month, we can be forgiven for missing the 10th anniversary of “Laudato si’,” Pope Francis’ encyclical on global warming. Pope Francis fell ill and died on April 21. Then, the College of Cardinals gathered from all over the world, and after discussing issues facing the church and the world, they met in conclave and elected a new pope.
Do we need a new Judaism?

5 days ago | religionnews.com | Jeffrey Salkin

(RNS) — I remember the first time I heard God speaking. It wasn’t specifically to me. It was to everyone — or, at the very least, anyone who was watching “The Ten Commandments,” the classic 1956 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Charlton Heston as Moses. It was a remake of DeMille’s 1923 silent film, and the 1956 film was to have been his final cinematic effort.
St. John's University partnership with US border protection divides campus

1 week ago | religionnews.com | Fiona Andre

(RNS) — A partnership between St. John’s University in Queens, New York, and United States Customs and Border Protection to inaugurate an immigration enforcement training center has sparked tensions among the university community. A group of faculty, students and alumni argued in a May 16 petition that the collaboration threatens “the university’s Catholic and Vincentian mission.” As of Thursday (May 29), it has 901 signers, including 93 faculty across six schools and university libraries.
PCA leader Bryan Chapell offers to resign after ‘scandalizers’ flap

1 week ago | religionnews.com | Bob Smietana

(RNS) — A tiny slip of paper with handwritten notes might have cost the stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in America his job. During a recording of a Gospel Coalition podcast, Bryan Chapell, the stated clerk of the PCA, held up a small piece of paper that named people he said had been troublemakers in the church and said that many of their lives had been ruined.
I'm not an antinatalist. But, as a rabbi, I do get where they're coming from.

1 week ago | religionnews.com | Avi Shafran

(RNS) — The car-bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, has brought increased awareness of “antinatalism,” a movement whose proponents embrace the philosophy that human procreation is unjustifiable and wrong.
Can Pope Leo XIV’s election revive Chicago's Catholicism?

1 week ago | religionnews.com | Adora Namigadde

(RNS) — Bennison’s Bakery, a shop in Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago, is having great success with a recent addition to its selection: cookies plastered with an edible picture of Pope Leo XIV, waving to the crowd after his election.
Does Ye deserve redemption?

1 week ago | religionnews.com | Jeffrey Salkin

(RNS) — The cold-blooded killing of Israeli Embassy employees Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, as the couple left an event last week at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., still echoes within our hearts. It is time to talk about another apparent casualty of that shooting: the antisemitism of Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
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.
Yes, Joseph Smith practiced polygamy

1 week ago | religionnews.com | Jana Riess

(RNS) — When John Turner’s biography of Brigham Young was published more than a decade ago, I marveled at his skill in dealing with a (very!) complex historical subject fairly. He sifted through a mountain of evidence — much of it conflicting — and assessed it in a way that was balanced but also maintained a consistent POV for the reader. The book let us know what Turner thought, after weighing all of the evidence, but without being driven by any kind of agenda.
Fuller says some churches allow same-sex marriage. But ban on married gay students remains.

1 week ago | religionnews.com | Bob Smietana

(RNS) — The board of a leading evangelical seminary voted to affirm its long-standing belief that LBGTQ relationships are unbiblical during its May meeting. But in an email to supporters Thursday (May 22), Fuller Theological Seminary’s president also acknowledged that some “faithful” Christian denominations approve of same-sex relationships, an unusual stance for an evangelical seminary.