Many Americans are moving away from congregations, but not necessarily from religion – movies, plays, art and social media fill the gap

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.

Most 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.

Is 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.

How 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.

OCP acquires Corresponsables de Dios, expands formation programming

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