Religion News Service
The church has a Cambridge problem
(RNS) — Christians can criticize affirmative action and DEI hires all they want, but the continued employment of disqualified pastors in the pulpit is the church’s own form of an employment program.
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6mMost Westerners know Buddhism through meditation, but everyday Buddhist life looks quite different in Thai temples
(The Conversation) — Thai Buddhism involves daily rituals and collective acts of worship, unlike the individual-focused emphasis on meditation often found in Western Buddhist communities.
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6mMany Americans are moving away from congregations, but not necessarily from religion – movies, plays, art and social media fill the gap
(The Conversation) — To understand what religion looks like in 21st-century America, researchers may need to ask different questions.
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8mIs a school trip to a mosque preaching or teaching? California school district gets hit with lawsuit.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (RNS) — A group of parents of various faiths sued Palo Alto Unified School District over a 2025 school trip to a mosque, claiming students were gifted Qurans and female students were encouraged to wear hijabs.
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21mHow one city became an American flashpoint
(RNS) — Springfield found new life through Haitian migration — then national politics turned that revival into a citywide state of fear.
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3mOCP acquires Corresponsables de Dios, expands formation programming
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