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Faith in Recovery
The percentage of religious Americans affirming the existence of only two gender identities rose from about 59 percent in 2021 to nearly 65 percent this year,…
Geoffrey Peters
Jun 28, 2023
Featured Contributors
New initiative celebrates sacred sites from diverse cultures throughout the world Virginia Beach, VA, On June 13, Patheos, the leading online platform for exploring and understanding religion…
Religion News
Embodied as two male and two female figures on a large screen above the altar, an artificial intelligence chatbot recently urged congregants in a Lutheran church…
Geoffrey Peters
Jun 26, 2023
Judaism
Rabbi Harold Kushner’s faith was shaken. His 14-year-old son, Aaron, suffered and ultimately died from a rare condition known as progeria—rapid aging. Aaron was a good…
Anglicanism
In the opening lines of the Bible, familiar to us in the classic King James as “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,”…
Issues
Gerald Groff routinely took Sundays off from his part-time mail carrier job at the U.S. Postal Service to observe the Sabbath. The evangelical Christian and former…
Scientology
Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” video garnered 35 million views on YouTube shortly after its release. So did the teaser trailer for Avengers:…
Features
The Episcopal Church has opened its doors to same-sex marriage, thus acknowledging the rights and personhood of the LGBTQ community. Some dioceses, however, are still fiddling…
Featured
A two-by-four is a two-by-four whether you are Christian, Muslim, Jewish or Hindu. So is a monkey wrench, and a hammer and a Phillips-head screwdriver. As church…
Scientologist
In the spring of 1950, the world was still digging itself out of the rubble of World War II, a conflict that had advanced the technology…
Methodism
It was a storybook wedding in every way—a loving couple, flowers, friends and two officiating ministers who had mentored the couple and were well aware that…
Christianity
Calling Easter Sunday “the most important and beautiful day of history,” Pope Francis addressed an audience of around 100,000 people after presiding over Mass at St.…
WRN Editorial Staff
Apr 23, 2023