Welcoming the stranger: Miami faith community strains to help new exiles, migrants
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on how faith communities in Miami are caring for migrants…
Essay: The case for reparations has been made all the more clear by COVID-19
In an article first published on Religion News Service, KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS, dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and canon theologian at Washington National Cathedral, says the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black lives is perhaps the strongest case for reparations…
US panel says faith community must lead slavery reparations
AP The faith community should guide the way on reparations for America’s history of slavery and racial discrimination and help the nation’s process of reconciliation and healing, religious leaders said during a panel held to discuss the issue. US religious groups have seen widespread interest in reparations, especially among Protestant churches that were active in […]
Essay: The American Rescue Plan is welcome relief for faith communities
In an article first published on Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, reflects on the role churches have played in addressing the pandemic and poverty in the US…
Boulder’s faith community comes together to grieve after grocery store shooting
Boulder, Colorado, USRNS The Table Mesa Shopping Center is ordinarily a hub of activity as locals swing in to do their errands. But since Monday’s shooting at the King Soopers grocery store that killed a police officer and nine others, the small strip of stores has been fenced off as a crime scene, its chain-link […]
Sight-Seeing: “Natural helpers” – needed reinforcements to head off looming suicides of despair
GLEN BLOOMSTROM, director of US-based Faith Community Engagement for LivingWorks Education – a suicide intervention training company, writes, in an article first published on Religion News Service, about the importance of “natural helpers” in suicide prevention…
ESSAY: PRAY, BUT STAY AWAY – HOLDING ON TO FAITH IN A TIME OF CORONAVIRUS
In an article first published on The Conversation, ROBYN J WHITAKER, a senior lecturer in New Testament at Pilgrim Theological College at Australia’s University of Divinity, looks at the impact of the coronavirus on Australia’s faith communities…
SUICIDE: MOVING BEYOND CONDEMNATION TO CARE
Writing from the US, ELIZABETH EVANS, of Religion News Service, reports on how faith communities – and one in particular – are helping families affected by suicide…
MEDICAL MARIJUANA: IN THE US STATE OF OKLAHOMA, BALLOT QUESTION SPLITS PEOPLE OF FAITH
BOBBY ROSS, Jr, of Religion News Service, reports on how a vote on legalising medical marijuana is dividing faith communities in the US state of Oklahoma…
Faith groups should practise responses to disasters, says Grenfell fire report
Faith groups should practise their responses to disasters like London’s Grenfell Tower fire, according to a new report released this week. The report, written by Amy Plender of UK-based thinktank Theos, looked at what role faith communities played in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire in London last June. At least 70 people were killed […]