Religious News

 

Religion News Service

The Religion News Service was founded in 1934 as an independent, high-quality source of news for all things religion, spirituality, and ethics. It is a nonprofit and (still) independent source, unaffialiated with any religious group.

• Joe Biden’s family Bible anchors faith-infused inaugural events
• Silk Road Rising presents: ‘The Four Hijabs’ (in Arabic and English) — Feminist Interpretations of Qur’anic Verses
• In Biden’s Cabinet, Catholics and Jews dominate
• Want your kids to follow in your faith? Take a page from religious conservatives.
• What is St. Matthew’s, the church Biden will attend on Inauguration Day?

Religion Dispatches

Religion Dispatches takes a more academic and theoretical approach to religion news. Instead of focusing on denominational news or news about a religious tradition, they focus on news stories about how religion works in society.

• Where Were They Radicalized? No Answer is Complete Without Addressing Evangelical Churches and Schooling
• Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness
• We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom
• Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously
• It’s Time to Put an End to Virginia’s Racist Death Penalty

The Immanent Frame

The Immanent Frame is an academically-oriented blog about religion, secularism, and the public sphere. The authors are almost exclusively professional scholars, but their writing is more approachable than in peer-reviewed journals.

• Distorted mirrors: Toward a clear gaze on Black suffering
• Revisited: The case of religious environmentalism
• RFP | SSRC Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship
• A theodicy of the unliving, or, Why I won’t teach my Black Lives Matter class anymore
• Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19

World Religion News

World Religion News brings you updates from all of the major world religions. The RSS feed brings you everything, but if you’re interested you can hone in on a specific tradition.

• Religious News From Around the Web January 18, 2021
• The Republic of God by Charles Franklin
• Religious News From Around the Web January 11, 2021
• World Religion News: 2020 in Review January 4, 2021
• It’s 2021 — Who Am I? Why Am I Here?