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How Deepak Chopra’s AI spirituality is hijacking spiritual hunger
(RNS) — For 50 cents per 30-minute session, or $10 a month, readers can now ask Digital Deepak about their purpose, their fears, their path forward.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 11:29 PM |
Catholic universities search for tricky balance on Trump anti-DEI push
(RNS) — Many Catholic university leaders are trying to thread the needle between staying under the Trump administration’s radar and framing their work with marginalized students as grounded in their Catholic identities.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 10:13 PM |
When Catholic colleges cut theology majors, what happens to Catholic identity?
(RNS) — Just 63% of Catholic higher education institutions have theology or religious studies departments, down from 69% in 2016.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 10:07 PM |
African Christian leaders and health nonprofits seek to fill gaps after USAID cuts
(RNS) — The leaders from 10 countries on the continent called for more local funding to restore essential resources to fight malaria, HIV and tuberculosis.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 8:20 PM |
Pope Leo offers rare insight into his thoughts during the conclave
ISTANBUL, Turkey (RNS) — Pope Leo spoke about the themes of peace and unity that guided his papal visits to Turkey and Lebanon, affirming the Holy See’s commitment to dialogue in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 8:15 PM |
‘Lebanon, stand up!’: Pope Leo revives calls for truth, justice after Beirut port blast
BEIRUT (RNS) — Survivors of the 2020 Beirut port explosion say they are still waiting for the truth as Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon to become ‘a home of justice and fraternity.’
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 5:57 PM |
How modern American women are finding Hinduism’s powerful goddess tradition through dance
(RNS) — Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred dance.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 5:36 PM |
A long-lost Rubens painting depicting Crucifixion sells for $2.7 million
VERSAILLES, France (AP) — It was part of a French collection and was initially thought to be from one of the many Rubens workshops that existed at the time.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 4:47 PM |
United Lutheran Seminary to host ‘A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy’ Conference, February 27–28
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 3:37 PM |
Pope Leo’s visit to psychiatric hospital aims to combat stigma in Lebanon
JAL EL DIB, Lebanon (RNS) — In a country battered by economic collapse and recurring conflict, Pope Leo XIV visited with patients battling trauma, recovering from addiction and dealing with disabilities at the Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 7:09 AM |
Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
From Boxes to Watercolors: Rethinking Data and Belonging for Multiracial People
The nonprofit sector's culture and language is built upon the assumption that each person belongs to exactly one racial group. Yet Multiracial people practice a form of bridging that movement-building and coalition work genuinely need.
POSTED OCTOBER 26, 2026 11:49 AM |
Voting While Indigenous: 3 Perspectives on the Role of Voting in Our Ongoing Battle for Liberation
NDN Collective is committed to the liberation of Indigenous Peoples, which requires a multifaceted approach to organizing political power.
POSTED OCTOBER 23, 2026 3:28 PM |
The tax-subsidized shrug: How foundation leaders threaten democracy and the nonprofit sector
A recent report from the Center of Effective Philanthropy may be unable to explain foundation behaviors, it does shine light on the extent of institutional dawdling and misalignment in the nonprofit sector.
POSTED OCTOBER 23, 2026 2:52 PM |
A nonprofit bought a grocery market to fund survivor recovery—can the model deliver?
Can a conventional business successfully become part of a nonprofit’s mission infrastructure, generating income while also helping communities?
POSTED OCTOBER 22, 2026 3:03 PM |
LANDBACK and protecting the Black Hills should be a priority this campaign season
The Black Hills Restoration Act is being drafted by tribes ask Congress to relinquish control of the federal public lands in the Black Hills back to the Lakota people.
POSTED OCTOBER 22, 2026 12:42 PM |
How environmental groups fight back against Trump’s attack on ESA
Under the Trump Administration, the Endangered Species Act is facing dramatic deregulation.
POSTED OCTOBER 21, 2026 11:10 AM |
Medicare, Medicaid, and the underinvestment in community life
Why community living supports offered by CBOs and caregivers must be funded as a durable public commitment by philanthropy and government programs such as Medicaid and Medicare.
POSTED OCTOBER 21, 2026 11:00 AM |
Domestic violence awareness is not enough—philanthropy must invest in survivor justice
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. While awareness is critical, Kavita Mehra, executive director of Sakhi for South Asian Survivors points to the fact that philanthropy needs to go beyond awareness and commit to resourcing this work is violence is evolving faster than our systems can keep up with.
POSTED OCTOBER 21, 2026 8:00 AM |
AI nationalization is a bailout wearing a populist costume
Far from being a “nationalization” model, AI equity proposals will reward whoever holds the stock and whoever gets advance word—not the public at large.
POSTED OCTOBER 20, 2026 11:15 AM |
The miseducation of the US: How America learned to misread itself
In 1995, Lauryn Hill asked in the song “Ex-Factor,” “Tell me who I have to be, to get some reciprocity.” Nearly three decades later, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill continues to generate academic scholarship, curricular study, and institutional analysis—evidence that Black musical traditions have long carried sophisticated civic, pedagogical, emotional, and political thought often encountered aesthetically before they are fully interpreted intellectually.
POSTED OCTOBER 20, 2026 11:00 AM |
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