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News Articles: Religion

Katherine May's new book examines the idea of awakening wonder in an "anxious age."

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How to hold onto a sense of wonder

Katherine May's new book examines the idea of awakening wonder in an "anxious age." And when I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth.

June 04, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
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A Utah school district has removed the Bible from some schools' shelves

After a parent's complaint, a school district in Utah banned the Bible from middle and elementary schools for containing "vulgarity or violence" inappropriate for the age group.

June 03, 2023
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  • Tilda Wilson
GPB News NPR

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Playing a religious character without making faith the punchline

There was something revelatory about the way the HBO show Somebody Somewhere gently hold the spiritual identity of one of its characters. It wasn't a punchline.

May 28, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
President Joe Biden shakes hands with second gentleman Doug Emhoff during a celebration marking Jewish American Heritage Month last week. The administration has just released a comprehensive strategy for combating antisemitism.

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The first national strategy for fighting antisemitism is finally here. What's in it?

The landmark plan outlines over 100 steps that federal agencies will take within a year. But the Biden administration says it will only work if other individuals and institutions take action too.

May 25, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
The Muslim community at Kyungpook National University mostly comprises students from Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and other countries with large Muslim populations. Here some members of the community pray at the Dar ul Emaan Kyungpook Islamic Center, in Daegu, South Korea.

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  • Asia

Muslims in South Korea want to build a mosque. Neighbors protest and send pig heads

The tensions are a test of the nation's tolerance of increasing diversity, when South Korea is looking to immigration to bolster its aging and shrinking workforce.

May 24, 2023
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  • Se Eun Gong
The REDI Index uses a variety of measures to assess a company's friendliness toward religion and belief.

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Intel named most faith-friendly company

The ranking is according to this year's Corporate Religious Equity, Diversity and Inclusion of large companies by the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation.

May 22, 2023
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  • Jason DeRose
Simran Jeet Singh, pictured here in the days after the attack on the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. in 2012, says he turned to his faith to help him through.

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  • Religion

Letting go of hate by questioning the very idea of evil

Author Simran Jeet Singh talks about how to move beyond hate and anger to see the humanity in others.

May 21, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Timothy Keller, an influential New York City pastor, author, and founder of the Gospel Coalition, died at age 72.

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Influential church leader Timothy Keller has died at the age of 72

He was a co-founder of The Gospel Coalition, a group concerned that evangelical Christianity had become too politicized.

May 20, 2023
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  • Jason DeRose
New guidance from the Department of Education says a school may take reasonable measures to ensure students aren't pressured to join in their teachers' or coaches' prayers.

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  • Religion

The Department of Education updates guidance on public school prayer

The new guidance comes a little less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court loosened rules for teachers and staff praying while on the job.

May 17, 2023
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  • Jason DeRose
Pastor Douglas Theobald, who has been at Struthers United Methodist Church for more than a decade, poses for a portrait on Sunday at the church in Struthers, Ohio.

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  • Religion

The faithful see both crisis and opportunity as churches close across the country

The sharp uptick in the number of younger Americans with no religious affiliation is driving a seismic shift that is leaving sometimes shattered congregations in its wake.

May 17, 2023
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  • Scott Neuman
GPB News NPR

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Morning news brief

Congress takes a closer look at regulations on artificial intelligence. Report shows the importance of religion in Americans' lives is on the decline. Philadelphia holds a mayoral primary election.

May 16, 2023
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  • Leila Fadel and
  • A Martínez
Just 16% of Americans surveyed said religion is the most important thing in their lives, according to a new report by the Public Religion Research Institute.

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  • Religion

The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is shrinking

The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is on the decline. That's according to a new report from the Public Religion Research Institute.

May 16, 2023
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  • Jason DeRose
Roland Griffiths' research showed how psychedelics can alleviate depression in people with terminal diseases.

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  • Health

He helped cancer patients find peace through psychedelics. Then came his diagnosis

Roland Griffiths is known as the scientist who helped prove that psychedelics can alleviate depression and mental anguish in cancer patients. That pursuit has since become a lot more personal.

May 14, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Democratic state Sen. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton (right) stands and applauds as Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs gives the state address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 9.

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  • National

An Arizona lawmaker (who is also a minister) is under investigation for a Bible prank

An ethics inquiry is examining whether Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, a Presbyterian minister, broke Arizona House rules when she hid Bibles from the members' lounge in a protest.

May 09, 2023
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  • Ben Giles
Autumn Hendry moved into the Nesting Place maternity home after she became pregnant, but she wasn't allowed to stay after she began using meth and alcohol again.

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  • Religion

Maternity homes provide support in a post-Roe world, but not without conditions

A crisis pregnancy center in Idaho opened a maternity home in the months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The residents have more complicated stories than the home's founders expected.

May 09, 2023
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  • Katia Riddle
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