A third of Asian Americans say religion is very important in their lives – survey
United StatesRNS More Asian Americans identify as atheist, agnostic or nonreligious than before, according to a survey released Wednesday by Pew Research Center. But 40 per cent of those Pew surveyed, who included Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese backgrounds, said they feel close to a religion for reasons aside from religion, […]
“One body in Christ”: How India’s religious violence is becoming a problem for American politicians
US politicians are under increasing pressure to account for their courtship of Indian Prime Minister Modi, the leader of a strategically important ally and the world’s largest democracy. RICHA KARMARKAR reports for Religion News Service…
Artificial intelligence
Hasn’t AI – artificial intelligence – arrived quickly? And who knows what this is going to mean for the world? PICTURE: Mojahid Mottakin/Unsplash I heard about a CEO who gets ChatGPT to rewrite his emails before he sends them so they come across as authoritative, upbeat, encouraging and inspiring. (Maybe I should do that for these […]
Wrestling with “our story”: Brytni McNeil brings anti-racism to Christian homeschooling
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, reports that McNeil is part of a broader movement of Black home educators, many of them Christian mothers, who want their kids to wrestle with truth on their terms…
Sight-Seeing: Why I am still a Christian
NILS VON KALM reflects on his long walk with Jesus…
Re-parenting
Many of our personal problems can be traced back to the way we were parented. Were we encouraged or ignored? Loved or Abandoned? Emptied of ego, taught to move from wants to needs? To care for others? PICTURE: Julianne Liebermann/Unsplash The research around this is challenging. Often what we need is re-parenting. Who will do that for […]
Sight-Seeing: The restorative justice of God
NILS VON KALM argues that our division of people into “good” and “bad” is not the way Jesus sees us…
The TCM Update: The rise of the “featured artist”
Steven Curtis Chapman and country singer Mitchell Tenpenny have teamed up for a new version of ‘Don’t Lose Heart’. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
In the US, Colorado baker loses appeal over transgender birthday cake
Denver, Colorado, USAP The Colorado baker who won a partial US Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake because of his Christian faith lost an appeal Thursday in his latest legal fight, involving his rejection of a request for a birthday cake celebrating a gender transition. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled […]
Essay: To the Christian nationalists who attacked the Capitol in Jesus’ name
As second anniversary of the US Capitol attack passes, SHANE CLAIBORNE, activist, author and co-director of Red Letter Christians, urges – in an article first published on Religion News Service – Christians not to abuse our Christian love in the pursuit of political power…