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Eternal polygamy? How LDS temple sealings and cancellations became a raw deal for women
By Jana Riess — May 17, 2024
(RNS) — Surprise: LDS Church policies around temple sealings and cancellations used to be more equal for women than they are today. What happened?
On Nakba Day, some Palestinians dream of a single, secular state
By Andre Henry — May 16, 2024
Can Zionism be spiritual?
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 14, 2024
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Jesuit scientist who bridged faith and science recounted in PBS documentary
By Thomas Reese — May 13, 2024
(RNS) — It is not surprising that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an eminent paleontologist, got himself in trouble with church officials and his Jesuit superiors.
OK, GOP, let’s put that antisemitism definition into effect!
By Mark Silk — May 10, 2024
(RNS) — Maybe there's an upside to the Republican effort to codify it.
Is the golden age of American Jews really ending?
By Mark Silk — May 8, 2024
(RNS) — Reports of its demise are premature.
Excommunication is not the church’s equivalent of capital punishment
By Thomas Reese — May 7, 2024
(RNS) — The church has not had a good system for punishing people since we got rid of the Inquisition.
God suffers with us
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 6, 2024
(RNS) — It is an outrageous idea. And yet, it touches our souls.
The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass
By Jana Riess — May 3, 2024
(RNS) — Melissa said it's not enough to memorialize our loved ones who die too young. We have to carry on their work.
The pro-life movement in political retreat
By Mark Silk — May 3, 2024
(RNS) — It finds itself at serious odds with Americans' historical deference to diversity of belief.
To save their movement, student protesters should break camp
By Andre Henry — May 3, 2024
(RNS) — 'A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.'
Since Oct. 7, we have been in an earthquake
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 3, 2024
(RNS) — More than 200 years ago, an earthquake shattered faith. We are living in similar times.
Despair in the Holy Land
By Thomas Reese — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — We have to persevere for peace and have hope because the alternative is too terrible to imagine.
What didn’t happen on Passover?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 29, 2024
(RNS) — It is not only history. Read to the end for my message to the anti-Israel crowd.
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