RNS Morning Report: Chaplains offer more than prayers: Study confirms impact on ICU

Top Stories Chaplains offer more than prayers: New study confirms impact on ICU families (RNS) — One research chaplain called the new data ‘a V8 engine for the kind of work we do.’   Latino evangelicals launch campaign against Florida execution of Donald David Dillbeck (RNS) — ‘We believe in life at all levels and in all circumstances,’ said Bishop Angel Marcial, president of the Florida Fellowship of Hispanic Councils & Evangelical Institutions.   As faiths shift underfoot, a TED-like gathering aims at rebalancing (RNS) — Two friends from seminary in Texas launched a new festival to foster conversations about our changing religious communities that they felt were missing in civic life.   Hindus only: How religious nationalism has spread through India’s villages KADAPA, India (RNS) — A village of just 250 families put up a clear warning to non-Hindus wanting to enter. RNS Opinion Finding spirituality on Earth’s ‘most secular’ continent (Interfaith America) — Looking for God at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.    How much do Americans know about the faiths around them? (RNS) — And what helps us most to understand our neighbors’ faiths? ICYMI Library of Congress to highlight Muslim slave and scholar with $2.5 million grant (RNS) — The project, which will aid other library programs, is one of 16 to receive grants from the Lilly Endowment’s Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative.   Trailblazing Episcopal priest Pauli Murray to be featured on US quarters (RNS) — The civil rights lawyer, activist, writer and priest was also gender nonconforming. In Other News The mundane history of white Christian nationalism Oldest complete Hebrew Bible expected to break auction records   Talk to Us We want your feedback on the RNS Morning Report — what you think we're doing right and what we should be doing differently. Send us an email at Comments@ReligionNews.com Subscribe to other RNS Newsletters. Forward this email to a friend. View the archive of past newsletters. Religion News Service is free to read, but it's not free to produce. If you value our reporting, please consider making a donation today at religionnews.com/donate. If you prefer to mail a donation, please address to: Religion News Foundation, PO Box 1808, Columbia, MO 65205. Yes, I support the work you're doing! Forward this email to a friend