One of the key challenges of the Reformation, when Protestants split from Roman Catholics 500 years ago, was around the ...
In this election season, our newsfeeds will be flooded with stories about the culture wars. In the 1980s, when I was growing up, these issues were shaped by what was then a new force in politics, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took their oaths of office on Wednesday using Bibles that are laden with personal meaning, writing new chapters in a long-running American tradition – and ...
Sometimes we forget what rituals really mean until we are smack in the middle of one. Today’s first reading from Exodus and Gospel passage from Matthew both deal with ritual. In Exodus, God ...
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