Lifestory: A boy’s arduous steps on prosthetic legs after Turkey’s earthquake
CLODAGH KILCOYNE, of Reuters, reports on Mehmet Koc’s long and painful road to recovery after Turkey’s devastating earthquake…
Lifestory: US football coach shares his journey back to a healthy marriage in a new book
STEVE REED, a sports writer with Associated Press, reports…
Lifestory: After 20 years, Terry Mattingly bids farewell to GetReligion
Religion reporting still matters, Mattingly says, but the internet’s ‘preaching to the choir’ algorithms have won out. BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on the end of an era… United States RNS Terry Mattingly has spent most of his life trying to get religion. An Orthodox Christian convert whose father was a Southern Baptist preacher, […]
Lifestory: Art Simon, founder of Christian anti-hunger group Bread for the World, dies at 93
ADELLE M BANKS and BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, pay tribute to the life – and legacy – of Art Simon…
Lifestory: How helping a family seeking asylum changed our church group
BILL LAWRENCE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, writes that the Afghan family opened his church’s eyes to how dangerous – and dehumanising – the asylum process could be…
Lifestory: Wanted Hong Kong activist fears for safety, hopes for US asylum
JAMES POMFRET and JESSIE PANG, of Reuters, speak with Anna Kwok, among those recently designated as a fuguitive by the Hong Kong police with a $HK1 million dollar bounty offered for her arrest…
Lifestory: New memoir by Anne Frank’s girlhood friend reveals “life outside the attic”
‘My Friend Anne Frank,’ by Hannah Pick-Goslar, details the girls’ friendship before the Holocaust and their brief reunion inside a Nazi concentration camp. MICHELE CHABIN, of Religion News Service, reports…
Lifestory: Tim Keller – A life of extraordinary integrity
Australian CHRISTOPHER GILBERT reflects on his time working with US Christian leader Tim Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan following news last week that Keller had died at the age of 72…
Lifestory: What was it about Tim Keller?
In a tribute to the US minister Tim Keller – who died last week at the age of 72, JOSHUA CHATRAW, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says that before anything else vocationally, Keller was a pastor…
Lifestory: In her own words – A Hiroshima bomb survivor learns English to tell her story
TOM BATEMAN and AKIKO OKAMOTO, of Reuters, speak to Teruko Yahata…