Lifestory: Dan Busby, longest-serving president of US evangelical financial watchdog, dies at 81
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports on the life of Dan Busby, president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, who died last week at the age of 81…
Lifestory: Remembering Kallistos Ware, revered Orthodox Christian theologian
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS reflects on the life of Metropolitan Kallistos Ware who died ths week at the age of 87…
Lifestory: My father’s drug addiction put a mask on me. Here’s how I took it off.
US publicist and author JENNIFER R FARMER, in an article published on Religion News Service, reflects on how her father’s drug addiction has shaped her…
Lifestory: Blind Afghan activist who fled Taliban embraces London life
As the Taliban mark one year in power in Afghanistan, Mehdi Salami tells EMMA BATHA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, what has happened to him and his wife, Benafsha Yaqoobi, since they fled their homeland…
Lifestory: At 92, John Perkins still mobilises Christian communities
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, profiles John Perkins, Christian minister, activist and community developer and author of the influentiual book, ‘Let Justice Roll Down’…
Lifestory: Syrian refugee brings the taste of home to Gaza
As the UN”s World Refugee Day is marked around the globe on 20th June, NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, of Reuters, reports on how Syrian refugee Anas Qaterji has made a life for himself in Gaza…
Lifestory: A life lived for justice – Rosemary Radford Ruether
DIRK VON DER HORST, in an article first published on Religion News Service, writes a tribute to US Catholic feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether who died this month…
Lifestory: First came the floods. Then “an amazing thing happened”…
SAMANTHA ELLEY writes about how her life was dramatically upended when flood waters inundated her home and her community…
Lifestory: From Leningrad to Kharkiv, a life bookended by war and despair
VITALII HNYDYI, of Reuters, speaks with 87-year-old retired librarian Margarita Morozova who, having lived through the siege of Leningrad in World War II, now finds herself in another war..
Lifestory: Nightbirde, who shared music, message of hope on ‘America’s Got Talent’, dies at 31
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports that the singer, a Liberty University graduate who moved many viewers with her faith in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis, withdrew from ‘America’s Got Talent’ as her health declined…