Essay: Why reading the Bible with reason and emotion alone doesn’t satisfy us

In an article first published on Religion News Service, JASON GABOURY, a regional director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s undergraduate ministry in New York and New Jersey and the author of ‘Wait With Me: Meeting God in Loneliness’, writes about why imagination is important when reading the Bible…
This Life: Failure is inevitable but not fatal

US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published by ASSIST News Service, looks at the importance of learning from your mistakes rather than wallowing in your failures…
In wake of financial scandals, Vatican releases budget for first time in four years

Vatican City RNS For the first time since 2016, the Vatican has released its financial budget for the administration of Roman Curia. “The faithful have the right to know how we utilise our resources,” said the prefect for economy at the Vatican, Rev Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves. Speaking to Vatican media outlets on Thursday Alves […]
Faith-based organisations express outrage over Trump’s plan to cut refugee admissions to historic low — again

RNS The Trump administration has announced the maximum number of refugees it plans to admit into the United States in the coming year, and once again, it is a historic low: 15,000. In recent weeks, several faith-based organisations involved in refugee resettlement had asked the administration to raise that number to its past average: 95,000. […]