RELIGION

BYU’s LGBTQ students spotlighted in new grassroots documentary
- By West virginia digital
- . March 14, 2024
(RNS) — When, in 2020, Brigham Young University’s Provo, Utah, campus erupted in rainbow-colored protests after the school quietly removed

Full-time ministry drains too many clergy and church budgets. Part-time pastors can help.
- By West virginia digital
- . March 14, 2024
(RNS) — Mainline Protestant denominations have a clergy problem so severe that it’s threatening their existence. They also have a

A new poetry, post-Oct. 7
- By West virginia digital
- . March 14, 2024
A new Israeli literature has emerged out of the rubble of Oct. 7. It is powerful, devastating and hopeful. The

Patriarch Neophyte I of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church dead at 78
- By West virginia digital
- . March 14, 2024
ISTANBUL (RNS) — Neophyte I, patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, has died at the age of 78 after a

Virgin of Charity unites all Cubans — Catholics, Santeria followers, exiled and back on the island
- By West virginia digital
- . March 14, 2024
EL COBRE, Cuba (AP) — Ramon Nieblas fixed his tearful eyes on the small golden statue, a beloved icon of

American Bible Society to shutter $60 million Faith and Liberty Discovery Center
- By West virginia digital
- . March 14, 2024
(RNS) — A $60 million museum that showcased the Bible’s role in American history will shut down less than three

Seeking Besties in a Romance-Obsessed World + Laura Tremaine
- By West virginia digital
- . March 14, 2024
Maybe the real soulmates are the friends we met along the way. As marriage has become the end-all, be-all relationship,

In ‘God’s Ghostwriters,’ scholar Candida Moss looks at the hidden hands behind the Bible
- By West virginia digital
- . March 13, 2024
(RNS) — Some books are inspired by world-shattering events, like a global pandemic. Others by something as small as getting

Hindu women look to ancient goddesses for guidance on modern feminism
- By West virginia digital
- . March 13, 2024
(RNS) — Preity Upala has lived more than a few lives. After a career as an investment banker in Australia,

Alabama’s IVF protection law redefines embryonic personhood
- By West virginia digital
- . March 13, 2024
(RNS) — Shortly before the Alabama House and Senate voted to give IVF providers civil and criminal immunity in the