by News Feed Editor | Apr 16, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — “Everything happens for a reason” might be one of the least helpful things you can say to someone who just lost a loved one, according to veteran hospital chaplain J.S. Park.But while Park understands why people grasp for what he calls “Swiss cheese theology”...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 16, 2024 | Religion
(AP) – A search committee previously sued for gender discrimination over its hiring process has announced its pick for the next senior pastor of a prominent New York City congregation considered by some to be the flagship of the Black church in America.Candidate Kevin...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 16, 2024 | Religion
LONDON (AP) — A Muslim student who wanted to pray during lunchtime lost a court fight Tuesday against a strict London school that had banned prayer on campus.A High Court judge said the female student had accepted when she enrolled in the school that she would be...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 16, 2024 | Religion
NEW YORK (AP) — In Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliving the day he thought might be his last.“At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 16, 2024 | Religion
SYDNEY (AP) — A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and priest during a church service in a second high-profile knife attack to rock Sydney in recent days, leaving communities on edge, leaders calling for calm and a besieged church urging against...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 15, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — When Calvin University hired Wiebe Boer as its new president in May 2022, the school signed the former business executive to a lucrative five-year deal.Along with a $400,000 annual salary, Boer received a $100,000 signing bonus, with annual bonuses of up to...