Origins: How an American magazine helped launch one of Britain’s favourite Christmas carols
MAURA IVES, a scholar of British poet Christina Rossetti, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at how ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ became one of the most popular Christmas carols…
Essay: New survey shows most Catholics have no idea who Cardinal McCarrick is. That’s a problem.
KERRY WEBER, an executive editor at US Catholic publication ‘America’, writes about why the fact most US Catholics don’t know who former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is a problem…
Essay: The Declaration of Independence wasn’t really complaining about King George, and five other surprising facts for July Fourth
As the US celebrates Independence Day, historian WOODY HOLTON, author of the forthcoming book ‘Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution’, offers in this article first published on The Conversation, six surprising facts about the nation’s founding document…
Essay: We have the chance to redeem voting rights
Writing from the US, JIM WALLIS and BARBARA WILLIAMS-SKINNER say that complicity in the attacks on the vote could erode the number of Americans attracted to Christianity…
Essay: God did not give Americans guns. To say otherwise is heresy.
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Rev SUSAN BROOKS THISTLEWAITE is president emerita and professor emerita of Chicago Theological Seminary, says it wasn’t God who gave Americans guns…
STRANGESIGHTS: WEIRD RESEARCH PROJECTS GET REWARDED; ANIMALS AS SECRET AGENTS?; AND, THE THEFT OF THE GOLDEN TOILET
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Anti-Muslim hate in the US is driven by politics, not faith – and it’s preventable, study suggests
RNS Americans who personally know a Muslim are more than twice as likely to have a favorable opinion toward Muslims than those who do not, according to a new report. But researchers say that anti-Muslim attitudes is influenced by a host of factors, from personal and national politics to how much a person knows about […]
In first, Native American tribe displaced by sea gets land to relocate
Thomson Reuters Foundation A small Native American tribe in Louisiana whose land has nearly vanished into the sea has moved a step closer to relocating its community further inland after authorities acquired new land for the move, part of a first-of-its-kind project. The 208 hectares of farmland will be made available to members of the […]
THE INTERVIEW: JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE ON HOW AMERICAN CHRISTIANS CAN BREAK FREE FROM ‘SLAVEHOLDER RELIGION’
In an interview first published on Religion News Service, JONATHAN MERRIT speaks with writer and preacher Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove about his new book, Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom From Slaveholder Religion…