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Southern Baptists, losing members, find solace in baptisms and better attendance
(RNS) — While membership in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination is down, participation in worship and baptisms went up in 2023. But a new statistical report found that many Southern Baptist Convention churches do little to address sexual abuse.
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POSTED MAY 07, 2024 11:16 PM |
Baltimore Catholic parish closures a ‘punch in the stomach’ with long-term impact
BALTIMORE (RNS) — Parish closures in the nation’s oldest Catholic diocese are part of a nationwide trend of dioceses restructuring in response to falling Mass attendance and priest shortages.
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POSTED MAY 07, 2024 11:13 PM |
For Muslim student protesters, a sense of purpose mingled with fear
NEW YORK (RNS) — Muslim participants describe feeling solidarity with other protesters but also unease at the watching world.
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POSTED MAY 07, 2024 9:06 PM |
Excommunication is not the church’s equivalent of capital punishment
(RNS) — The church has not had a good system for punishing people since we got rid of the Inquisition.
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POSTED MAY 07, 2024 8:07 PM |
In toxic time, hope can be the solid ground we can stand on
(RNS) — Severely tried in the months since Oct. 7, the interfaith community still looks to the promise of future flourishing.
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POSTED MAY 07, 2024 7:12 PM |
Man tried to shoot a pastor at Pennsylvania church service but gun wouldn’t fire, state police say
(AP) – The chaos at the Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock took place Sunday while the service was being livestreamed, state police said in a news release.
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POSTED MAY 07, 2024 3:11 PM |
Artists created images of Christ that focused on reflecting different communities
(The Conversation) — Images of Christ often represented prevailing cultural beliefs, allowing onlookers to connect in a deep and meaningful way.
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POSTED MAY 07, 2024 3:07 PM |
Turkey formally opens another former Byzantine-era church as a mosque
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into a mosque in 2020, soon after it similarly turned Istanbul’s landmark Haghia Sophia into a Muslim house of prayer.
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POSTED MAY 07, 2024 2:56 PM |
The yearly memorial march at the former death camp at Auschwitz overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) —The event, now in its 36th year, usually draws thousands of participants, including Holocaust survivors and Jewish students, leaders and politicians.
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POSTED MAY 07, 2024 2:53 PM |
Planning Center launches online donation software in Australia and New Zealand
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POSTED MAY 07, 2024 2:49 PM |
Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Want Democratic Leadership at Your Nonprofit? Here Are Some Dos and Don’ts More nonprofit employees are seeking to democratize leadership through what are being called “worker self-directed nonprofits.” It’s not easy but it can be rewarding.
POSTED MAY 07, 2024 1:30 PM |
After Spend-Down, Foundation Offers Advice on Power Imbalance in Philanthropy As the Edward W. Hazen Foundation prepares to close its doors, it leaves advice on how to build better funder and grantee relationships.
POSTED MAY 07, 2024 1:18 PM |
Anti-DEI Legislation Threatens Medical School Diversity A proposed bill would ban diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in medical schools, threatening the diversity of medical schools, and, consequently, the provision of healthcare for vulnerable communities.
POSTED MAY 06, 2024 2:03 PM |
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 |
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