“The Baptists are praying for you,” my Jewish mother said to me with enthusiasm the day before the cancer surgery that saved my life. Mom was still living in Virginia at the time and felt helpless ...

Susan Kathryn Sissel, 79, of Albany, Oregon, passed away peacefully on Thursday, July 31, surrounded by family, and under the compassionate care of Evergreen Hospice. Susan was born in Lebanon, Oregon ...

(RNS) — Last week, Rabbi Steven Burg, who heads the Orthodox Jewish educational organization Aish, claimed in a Jewish News Service column that last month’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in ...

There is a particular way Matthew McConaughey speaks when he is circling an idea he does not want to let go of. The sentences roll, stop, double back. A word, “belief,” becomes a refrain, a drumbeat.

ACTION: Several community members spoke out about a recent report about a coach in the district asking their team to bow their heads in prayer before a game. A district parent reached out to the ...

A video shared on social media shows Democrat members of the House of Representatives objecting to prayer for Christian conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, who was ...

Shouting broke out on the House floor after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) held a moment of prayer for conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot on Wednesday afternoon. After the ...

Legal scholars and pastors consider the president’s call for the formation of prayer groups for the nation. This week the White House issued detailed prayer guidance, urging Americans to pray an hour ...

The role of prayer in civil society has emerged in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting, and this may be a blessing of sorts amid the tragedy. This is because scientific research has ...

A film editor friend of mine makes the same complaint every time I see him: “No one makes movies about the way people live now.” It’s not incorrect. The “slice of life” genre doesn’t necessarily pack ...

Brandon Ambrosino teaches theology and ethics at Villanova University and is the author of “Is It God’s Will? Making Sense of Tragedy, Luck, and Hope in a World Gone Wrong.” After a gunman killed two ...