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With a final flourish, United Methodist conference eliminates all anti-LGBTQ policies
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (RNS) — The reversals came in the wake of a schism that saw the departure of a quarter of its US churches — more than 7,600 congregations — over the past five years.
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POSTED MAY 03, 2024 11:30 PM |
Eastern Orthodox Church ordains Zimbabwean woman as its first deaconess
(RNS) — For years, the Patriarchate of Alexandria and Africa has intensified its efforts to establish the female diaconate.
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POSTED MAY 03, 2024 11:02 PM |
Churches tied to Civil Rights awarded National Park Service preservation funds
(RNS) — Other grantees will use the NPS funding to conduct historical surveys, including one in Detroit that will explore 'the role of religion in the struggle for equality.’
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POSTED MAY 03, 2024 10:20 PM |
The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass
(RNS) — Melissa said it's not enough to memorialize our loved ones who die too young. We have to carry on their work.
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POSTED MAY 03, 2024 9:57 PM |
Catholic Bishop joins cease-fire prayer vigil protesting weapons for Israel
(RNS) — Asked about student protests on college campuses, Bishop John Stowe said he appreciated their 'interest in the situation and their solidarity with the Palestinians' but stressed the need to act peacefully.
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POSTED MAY 03, 2024 9:20 PM |
The pro-life movement in political retreat
(RNS) — It finds itself at serious odds with Americans' historical deference to diversity of belief.
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POSTED MAY 03, 2024 9:05 PM |
To save their movement, student protesters should break camp
(RNS) — 'A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.'
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POSTED MAY 03, 2024 8:03 PM |
How ‘apocalypse’ became a secular as well as religious idea
(The Conversation) — Events that the media describe as ‘apocalyptic’ reflect changing anxieties about the future.
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POSTED MAY 03, 2024 6:38 PM |
Damaged in war, a vibrant church in Ukraine rises as a symbol of the country’s faith and culture
LYPIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — It’s one of 129 war-damaged Ukrainian religious sites recorded by UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural organization.
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POSTED MAY 03, 2024 6:35 PM |
Photos of the Week: United Methodists; Orthodox Holy Week
(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes large changes for United Methodists, Orthodox Holy Week and more.
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POSTED MAY 03, 2024 4:53 PM |
Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse? Loneliness is an epidemic. How is the climate crisis contributing to social isolation, and can nonprofits and new legislation help?
POSTED MAY 02, 2024 1:32 PM |
How Women in the United States Are Stepping Up to Support Women in Haiti Amid the recent crisis in Haiti, women are stepping up to support those most impacted.
POSTED MAY 02, 2024 1:29 PM |
What Are Reparations? Reparations is about three main things: resources, policies and programs, and ending anti-Blackness. The latter requires analysis and vision to remake the future.
POSTED MAY 02, 2024 1:21 PM |
Your Comfort Is Killing Me: The Toll of Unseen—and Unpaid—Emotional Labor The endemic nature of harmful experiences in unsupportive and toxic workplaces creates a collective emotional drain among women of color leaders in the United States. Women of color leaders are being depleted while navigating harm at the interpersonal, institutional, and societal levels, distracting and derailing energy, creativity, and attention from the intended work of creating a more just world for all.
POSTED MAY 02, 2024 1:17 PM |
“We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible”: Navigating Three Black Women Tropes in Leadership Many organizational executives who identify as Black and women are not sure how much longer they will be able to continue in their leadership roles. The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual toll of doing the emotional labor expected of us—the labor that racism socializes others to expect us to do in the workplace and beyond—has been documented as shortening our lives.
POSTED MAY 02, 2024 1:07 PM |
Could a Union Win in Chattanooga Lead to Greater Labor Gains in the South? In April, Volkswagen workers in Tennessee voted by an overwhelming margin for a union. Could this be the harbinger of a union organizing wave? The UAW hopes so.
POSTED MAY 01, 2024 1:48 PM |
We Stood Together to Protect Our Rights A journalist shares how his union overcame fear and organized a strike to benefit coworkers within the industry.
POSTED MAY 01, 2024 1:43 PM |
Can African Unions Beat Big Tech? One year after Kenyan workers at major tech companies like Meta, Open AI, and TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, voted to unionize, the struggle for worker justice continues.
POSTED MAY 01, 2024 1:39 PM |
Dora Akunyili: A Black Woman Who Reformed Nigeria’s Public Health Sector How Nigerian public health reformer Dora Akunyili paved the way for Black women leaders.
POSTED APRIL 30, 2024 1:35 PM |
The Unseen Labor of Black Women Leaders To be a Black woman leader is to grapple with embedded challenges.
POSTED APRIL 30, 2024 1:18 PM |
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