“No congregation is an island”: In tough times, churches can’t afford to go it alone, new book advises
Samford University sociologist Jennifer McClure Haraway looks at the way congregations in Alabama work together — and what congregations around the country can learn from them. BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…
Mental health: Clergy burnout is a growing concern in polarised churches. A summit offers coping strategies
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports ahead of this week’s church mental health summit in the US…
Finding consensus: In these polarised times, even a prayer could be up for debate
ADELLE M BANKS reports that after struggling over wording in the prayer, one ecumenical organisation in the US is developing new tools to address divides within its own network…
ESSAY: WHERE ARE PEOPLE SATISFIED WITH DEMOCRACY – AND WHY
In an article first published on The Conversation, academics ROBERTO FOA and ANDREW JAMES KLASSEN, of the University of Cambridge, look at what their research shows about people’s experience of democracy around the world…
Newman poised to be “saint of friendship” in today’s polarised church
Vatican CityRNS Cardinal John Henry Newman, a Catholic convert who was able to bridge the divide with the Anglican Church and was among the most respected theologians of the 19th century, will become a saint on Sunday (13th October), as Catholicism faces new divisions from within. “Some people say this is a battle for the soul […]