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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
United Lutheran Seminary
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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.
How Deaconess Foundation Is Investing in Narrative Infrastructure and Black Futurity
The Deaconess Foundation is making the case and exemplifying why narrative must’ve be invested in as long-term civic infrastructure to make narrative power possible.
POSTED AUGUST 14, 2026 2:43 PM |
Immigrant Professionals Have Built This Country for 250 Years—the System That Matches Them to Work Hasn’t Kept Up
Immigrants have historically fueled economic growth in the United States. And yet today, nearly three million work-authorized, college-educated, and experienced immigrants in the United States are unemployed or working in jobs that require less than their education level.
POSTED AUGUST 14, 2026 2:34 PM |
What Maui’s Kahua Card Program Reveals About Philanthropy’s Recovery Gap
Why philanthropy needs to rethink disaster recovery timelines, and to trust community-led organizations.
POSTED AUGUST 14, 2026 11:36 AM |
Can Tech Philanthropy Solve What Tech Extraction Creates?
We can look to a conservative community in Texas sounding the alarm about the rise of tech philanthropy. The third-wave giving in grant making shows new institutions, new talent, and new ways of supercharging the impact of the nonprofit sector will come at a dire cost.
POSTED AUGUST 13, 2026 3:38 PM |
On Becoming a Leader (Again)
After years of organizing for others, one nonprofit organizer withdrew to survive. What they found on the other side—as a queer, BIPOC backpacking instructor—is that showing up for yourself is its own form of leadership.
POSTED AUGUST 13, 2026 3:20 PM |
Dreaming of Justice, Living with Purpose
An interview with Bismark Ghanney, illustrating a young person’s journey towards pursuing their dreams to establish a career in government and the experiences that shaped their civic identity.
POSTED AUGUST 13, 2026 10:48 AM |
Future250: Cultivating the Next Generation of Democracy
A look at how philanthropy, nonprofits, educators and civic institutions, can preserve and promote the next 250 years of democracy by investing in young people—the rising generation of leaders who are already spearheading efforts to address some of the most pressing challenges in their communities.
POSTED AUGUST 13, 2026 10:03 AM |
When the Parish Closes, Who Keeps the Pantry Open?
Parish-based food pantries and other ministries function as neighborhood civic infrastructure. What happens when they suddenly close?
POSTED AUGUST 12, 2026 2:03 PM |
Close the Wealth Gap: A Guided Meditation
This is a guided meditation that speaks directly to members of the global majority and invites them to imagine what becomes possible for all people when repair is real.
POSTED AUGUST 12, 2026 1:35 PM |
What Happens When Civil Society Can’t Buy the Building? Lessons from the Sale of San Francisco’s Redstone Labor Temple
The sale of the Redstone building represents a broader national challenge: what happens when nonprofits and civic organizations can no longer retain ownership of the very spaces that make civic life possible?
POSTED AUGUST 11, 2026 11:03 AM |
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