January 5, 2020, 6:00am Churches & Religion
The Samples were a black Chicago family, with six children and few resources. The priest helped them with tuition, clothes, bills. He offered the promise of opportunities — a better life. Read story
January 4, 2020, 7:08pm Churches & Religion
The United Methodist Church, the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination, is poised to formally split after years of infighting over LGBT inclusivity. Read story
January 4, 2020, 6:05am Churches & Religion
In 2019, Yale University’s most popular class ever — Psyc 157: Psychology and the Good Life, which drew roughly 1,200 undergraduate students in the spring 2018 term — jumped into the podcast space. Read story
January 1, 2020, 2:45pm Churches & Religion
When a machete-wielding attacker walked into a rabbi’s home in Monsey, N.Y, during Hanukkah and a gunman fired on worshippers at a Texas church 14 hours later, the two congregations in different regions of the country joined a growing list of faith communities that have come under attack in the… Read story
December 29, 2019, 7:16pm Churches & Religion
About 15 men shouted over each other in a crowded kitchen at Congregation Kol Ami on Sunday morning, arguing about how to best prepare latkes for the night’s potluck that marked the final night of Hanukkah. Read story
December 28, 2019, 9:12pm Churches & Religion
Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children, admitted masturbating in the bushes near a church school and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry. And yet the former Catholic priest was only just this month added to a… Read story
December 28, 2019, 6:05am Churches & Religion
Long before twinkling lights or gingerbread houses dot the scene, the Christmas Wish List appears. Traditionally it’s filled-to-the-brim and stretching long, holding possibilities certain to bring joy. Read story
December 28, 2019, 6:05am Churches & Religion
Salvador Bolivar puffs smoke through a long wooden pipe. Two braids hang just past his shoulders. Bear totems perch on the piano, a bundle of dried sage pinned to the wall. Resting beside him is a small drum; he’s just sung four songs in Taino, a lost language of the… Read story
December 28, 2019, 6:03am Churches & Religion
A man in handcuffs locked to a belt chain trudged up metal stairs, eyes fixed on the door of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter plane bound for El Paso. Read story
December 27, 2019, 6:05am Churches & Religion
It’s the supreme irony of Eunice Schroeder’s life: When a friend first invited her to try walking a prayer labyrinth about 25 years ago, she really disliked the idea. Read story
