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Inside the Beatles' abandoned Indian ashram that keeps visitors coming decades later
The path to the Beatles Ashram, once the tranquil retreat of the famous British band, is now overgrown with lush plants reclaiming the crumbling structures....
Clergy, parents file suit against Lousiana Ten Commandments law
A group of public school parents, including some clergy, have filed a lawsuit against Louisiana’s new law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools, arguing the statute unfair...
Sean Rowe elected youngest presiding bishop in Episcopal Church history
Sean Rowe, bishop of the Episcopal Northwest Pennsylvania and bishop provisional of Western New York, was elected and confirmed June 26 to serve as the 28th presiding bishop of the denomination....
Moltmann the teacher
Studying theology with him offered me new possibilities for justice and abundant life.
Jerry Falwell’s toxic legacy
Keri Ladner digs into the Moral Majority founder’s archives to show how his fantastical interpretations of world politics seeded the ground for QAnon.
Feeling God in a modernist cathedral-in-progress
While other churches have filled me with wonder, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia brought tears to my eyes.
Treasures of our ancestors
Rabbi Debra Robbins creates a spiritual practice around the seven psalms of the Jewish morning liturgy.
Why a denomination is investigating late devotional writer Sarah Young
Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence, a book of daily devotions that combines Bible verses with friendly messages written as if Jesus were speaking, has been one of the bestsellin...
June 30, Ordinary 13B (2 Samuel 1:1, 17–27)
Maybe the Song of the Bow is an Iron Age propaganda drop. Or maybe it’s just a song.
Episcopal Church grapples with 'transformative role' in Native American residential schools
For most Native American children in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, education was neither a right nor a privilege....
Babes revives the adult comedy
It recalls the raunchy movies of the early 2000s—even as it offers a fresh vision of what it means to grow up.
Our very human pastors (2 Corinthians 6:1-13)
Paul comes to the Corinthians as he is and ministers among them from God’s grace dwelling in his distinct and dented life.
What does it mean to be an inclusive church?
Being a community means welcoming those with diverse views, not cocooning oneself with like-minded people.
Study: Despite highest rates of religious disaffiliation, East Asia remains spiritually vibrant
In East Asia, people are leaving their religion at rates that are among the highest in the world, according to a survey released June 17 by Pew Research Center....
Puerto Rico as both object and subject of mission
José David Rodríguez provides a decolonial history of Lutheranism in the world’s oldest colony.
Hair like wool
Both Daniel and Revelation compare God’s hair to wool. White enslavers used to say the same thing about hair like mine.
What happened to US politics?
John Ganz explores the gritty political and cultural trends that erupted in the early 1990s and set the stage for the present.
Leading and lamenting with Nehemiah
Brenda Salter McNeil draws on her community organizing experience to find fresh lessons from the biblical rebuilder.
Historic all-sign-language movie 'Jesus: A Deaf Missions Film' comes to theaters
Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama Jesus of Nazareth—but as a Deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue....
Genius and virtue
Wildcat is less a biopic than a luminous exploration of the tension in Flannery O’Connor’s artistic and spiritual life.