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Vote to bar churches with women pastors fails again at SBC meeting
(RNS) — The issue of women staffers who have the title of pastor in SBC churches has been up for debate repeatedly in recent years.
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POSTED JUNE 12, 2025 2:20 AM |
In LA, faith leaders protest to stand up for the detained and keep the peace
(RNS) — At one demonstration, faith leaders spread out in front of the line of officers, held hands and occasionally burst into song.
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POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 9:23 PM |
A Jewish group is taking turns fasting to bring attention to starving Gazans
(RNS) — The rolling Stop Starving Gaza fast is gaining traction among various JVP chapters around the country. A separate petition, ‘Jews for Food Aid,’ has garnered more than 20,000 signatures.
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POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 9:00 PM |
Choosing peace together: a Muslim and Jew call for peace in a time of violence
(RNS) — What does it mean to be a peacebuilder right now? For us, peacebuilding began with friendship.
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POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 8:10 PM |
As Alcoholics Anonymous turns 90, a look at the Serenity Prayer’s eternal relevance
(RNS) — The prayer, adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous in 1941, has become synonymous with the recovery movement, but its applications seem to widen every day.
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POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 7:52 PM |
Slideshow: SBC annual meeting in Dallas
(RNS) — Scenes from the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.
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POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 5:38 PM |
Southern Baptists trumpet their good works, set stage for vote on women pastors in Dallas
(RNS) — More than 10,000 Southern Baptist leaders, known as messengers, are meeting for the SBC's annual meeting.
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POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 5:32 PM |
Southern Baptists seek overturning of same-sex marriage
(RNS) — ‘For Southern Baptists, the waters of sexuality are not muddy,’ said Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley.
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POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 5:03 PM |
In wake of allegations, Christian musician Michael Tait admits to ‘double life’
(RNS) — ‘While I might dispute certain details in the accusations against me, I do not dispute the substance of them,’ Tait wrote in an Instagram post Tuesday evening.
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POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 3:57 PM |
Messianic Jews gather in US as antisemitism surges
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POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 3:13 PM |
Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Black Imagination as Strategy: Reclaiming Creativity in Nonprofit Leadership
Many nonprofits and activists plan out of fear, not possibility. Black imagination offers valuable lessons from the tradition of making a way out of no way.
POSTED JUNE 12, 2025 10:36 AM |
With Major Sponsors Out, Who Is Stepping Up to Support Pride?
Pride groups face up to six figure deficits in their budgets due to corporations pulling support. How can LGBTQ+ nonprofits make up the difference?
POSTED JUNE 12, 2025 10:14 AM |
Liberation Stories: A Conversation with Shanelle Matthews and Marzena Zukowska
The need to “change the narrative” is often articulated. But how is this done? In this interview, two editors of a new book on “liberation stories” offer their perspectives.
POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 2:04 PM |
Using Narrative Power to Advance Liberation: Six Key Elements
To change the world requires altering how we see the world, and that requires narrative change. In this book excerpt, the authors offer a framework for how to do so.
POSTED JUNE 11, 2025 11:46 AM |
Meet the Hidden Majority of Nonprofits: The All-Volunteer Organization
The United States has over a million nonprofits, but the majority of them to do not have paid staff. What do we know about this largely hidden part of the nonprofit sector?
POSTED JUNE 10, 2025 10:15 AM |
Trump’s Authoritarian Spectacle: Corruption in US Governance and What Nonprofits Can Do About It
As the Trump administration’s brazen corruption continues, grassroots organizations and nonprofits stand as a critical bastion of resistance, with the opportunity to develop new systems of care that center the many rather than the few.
POSTED JUNE 09, 2025 10:15 AM |
Report Uplifts New and Old Challenges Facing Nonprofits
In this year’s State of Nonprofits report, the Center for Effective Philanthropy notes that burnout and staffing issues continue to plague nonprofit leaders who are also now burdened with having to navigate a hostile political climate.
POSTED JUNE 06, 2025 8:04 PM |
The Civic Bond: Friendship as Democracy’s Essential Thread
How can we rebuild democracy? Let’s explore how democracy relates to the quality of relationships we have with one another.
POSTED JUNE 06, 2025 2:25 PM |
Burnout Among the Youngest Climate Activists
In the past few years, young people have emerged as some of the most passionate, informed, and persuasive leaders of the climate movement. But despite their youth, burnout has come for them too.
POSTED JUNE 05, 2025 10:31 AM |
Conservatives Attack Nonprofits on Capitol Hill
In a hearing on Capitol Hill, Republicans and Democrats clashed over Trump administration attacks on nonprofits.
POSTED JUNE 05, 2025 6:11 AM |
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