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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 |
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The Architecture of Environmental Justice Is in Danger—and on the Ballot
The legal and financial scaffolding built to make the clean energy transition fair is being dismantled one executive order at a time. Only Congress can make it permanent.
POSTED AUGUST 21, 2026 4:32 PM |
Stewardship Isn’t a Thank-You Note—It’s a System
A retention rate under 50 percent is more than a tactics problem. It’s a belief problem. The difference between stewardship that works and stewardship that doesn’t is whether donors feel alignment with the mission and a genuine sense of belonging.
POSTED AUGUST 20, 2026 1:50 PM |
To Exit Our Authoritarian Timeline, We Must Reclaim Patriotism by Keeping its Promise
We must take patriotism and American symbolism back from the side working to gut our freedoms. To do this, our side must earn it, in public, where the grifters can't follow.
POSTED AUGUST 20, 2026 1:00 PM |
The Gap Between the Spectacle of America 250 and Reality: Lessons from North Carolina’s Fight for Voting Rights
North Carolina’s reality stands in stark contrast to America 250 celebrations that idealize the state of the nation: over the past year the state legislature has worked to destroy the voting power of its students, Black communities, immigrant citizens, and rural voters.
POSTED AUGUST 20, 2026 10:42 AM |
Built From the Ground Up: Why Environmental Justice Belongs to Communities
In the autumn of 1982, residents organized inside Coley Springs Baptist Church in Warren County, North Carolina to stop the state from burying PCB-contaminated soil in their community. For six weeks, men, women, and children marched and lay down in the road in front of trucks hauling toxic waste. More than 500 people were arrested. It was from a jail cell in Warren County that the term “environmental racism” was first spoken aloud—not coined by a scientist or a policy office, but by the people living closest to the harm, organizing without institutional permission.
POSTED AUGUST 19, 2026 9:34 PM |
Let’s Talk Democracy Funding: Payout Rates, Pluralism, and Readiness at America’s 250th
Even though support for democracy efforts continues to grow, deeper funding trends and challenges call for additional analysis and discussion.
POSTED AUGUST 19, 2026 2:31 PM |
One Year After Unlawful Federal Firings, a New Survey Documents the Damage
A new survey reveals the wide-ranging effects of the terminations on federal employees at the turn of the administration. This survey is a starting point for independent researchers to study what happened to the unlawfully terminated population.
POSTED AUGUST 19, 2026 2:09 PM |
Who Controls the Board?
When yet more children's bones were found on the grounds of a past Bureau of Indian Education school, followed by another rash of school shootings, I felt physically sick to my stomach and disgusted that all these dead children were somehow just pawns in some sort of game that I couldn't hope to understand.
POSTED AUGUST 19, 2026 12:40 PM |
From the Birthing Chamber to the Ballot Box: A Choice Between Erasure and Equality
The mythology of America is one of unblemished progress and triumph—a narrative amplified with renewed force as the United States continues to celebrate its 250th year. But those of us whose existence has always been a death-defying freedom struggle, propose an alternate observance—one that requires us all to reckon with the reality we are living in and the injustices that have shaped the society we’ve inherited.
POSTED AUGUST 18, 2026 2:22 PM |
Climate Philanthropy Doesn’t Have a Talent Problem, it Has an Access Problem
Youth-led climate groups receive under one percent of major foundation grants. The usual fix, teaching them to fundraise, misunderstands the root cause.
POSTED AUGUST 18, 2026 1:09 PM |
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