What Baseball Can Learn from Religion
(RNS) -- The Boys of Summer are back and another baseball season is underway, but the game is declining in popularity, losing ground to endless digital
Report: Global Hunger Rises by 11 Million in 2017
Almost 124 million people in 51 nations experienced acute hunger in 2017, according to a report released on March 22.
Don’t Domesticate MLK
(RNS) -- Whenever we remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., some people inevitably pull out a piece of sandpaper and try to smooth the
MLK’s Last Sunday Sermon Is as Relevant Today as It Was in 1968
When King preached at Washington National Cathedral on March 31, 1968, nobody knew it would be the last Sunday sermon he would ever give.
Why Isn’t There a ‘War on Easter’ like Christmas?
Christmas -- the only Christian holy day more popular than Easter -- has somehow become a recurring scandal with the so-called "War on Christmas." Yet
Where the Buffalo Roam, a Passion Play Approaches the Century Mark
WICHITA MOUNTAINS WILDLIFE REFUGE, Okla. (RNS) -- Before the sun sets at a remote mountain attraction called Holy City of the Wichitas, Jesus and a
SBC Executive Committee CEO Frank Page Resigns Over ‘Personal Failure’
NASHVILLE (BP) -- Frank S. Page has resigned as president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, effective
PBS Film Explores How We Go Gently – or Kicking and Screaming – into the Night
(RNS) Five weeks after she receives her terminal lung cancer diagnosis, Phyllis Tickle is sitting on her porch in Tennessee, talking about death.
"I've reared
Most SNAP Participants Employed — But in Unstable Jobs
A majority of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants are employed while receiving assistance but in positions with unstable hours resulting in income volatility, according a Center on
Urged by Their Youth, Faith Groups Flocked to the March for Our Lives
WASHINGTON (RNS) -- When Lydia Catterall, a junior at Norcross High School in Norcross, Ga., was asked why she was participating in the March for