Postcards: An Ethiopian church in Washington DC preserves an ancient language and Orthodox tradition
LUIS ANDRES HENAO, of Associated Press, reports from the DSK Mariam Church in the US capital…
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Open Book: That time when Jesus made a scene. Again.
NILS VON KALM looks at what we can learn from Mary’s “unbelievably extravagant act” of pouring expensive perfume over Jesus’ feet…
Conversations: Darlene Zschech, Australian singer, worship leader and pastor
DAVID ADAMS speaks to Darlene Zschech about her new album and devotional, ‘Testament’, her advice for someone starting out in the music industry and her role as one of the lead pastors at Hope Unlimited Church…
Postcards: Historic domes of Hagia Sophia are renovated to protect the landmark from earthquakes
ROBERT BADENDIECK and MEHMET GUZEL, of Associated Press, report from Istanbul on efforts to protect the 1,500-year-old former church-turned-mosque…
Sight-Seeing: Not as advertised – The false god in ‘The Great Gatsby’
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, revisits the role an infamous billboard plays in the novel on its 100th anniversary…
Wow!: UK cathedral celebrates Holy Week with a focus on Biblical women
ANGELA YOUNGMAN reports on how a programme of events at Rochester Cathedral in the UK is celebrating women this Easter…
StrangeSights: Uber’s ‘left behind’ list; protecting against floods – with a flood; and, records banana hats and pull-ups
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Historically Speaking: Flushing Remonstrance on display for first time in seven years at New York Public Library
FIONA ANDRÉ, of Religion News Service, reports that the 17th-century letter is widely considered to have inspired the religious freedom clause in the First Amendment…
Sight-Seeing: My book was just banned from the US Naval Academy library
ROBERT P JONES, president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, says book bans are an aggressive, systemic form of lying. This one takes aim at key texts at the intersection of religion and racial justice…
Postcards: A historic Black church took the Proud Boys to court. Now it controls their trademark
TIFFANY STANLEY, of Associated Press, visits the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, DC…
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