The Body of Christ is made of many parts, and people experience their understanding of God in many different ways. On this blog, we'll consider the beliefs and activities of congregations, denominations and different religions.
Friday, July 18, 2025
RNS Morning Report - In temples and churches, sensory rooms remove barriers for neurodivergent worshipers
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (RNS) — Located in underutilized classrooms, storage spaces and former nurseries, these spaces are empowering families to return to faith communities.
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Rep. Tim Kennedy of New York, a Catholic Democrat, said the hearing, coming as tensions over immigration policy have erupted between Catholic bishops and the Trump administration, ‘reeks of anti-Catholicism.’
(RNS) — Attacks from the religious right on Marina Silva, a Pentecostal and longtime environmentalist, expose the rifts within Brazil’s evangelical movement as the Amazon’s future hangs in the balance.
(RNS) — Both Christians and Deadheads were a ragtag group of communal devotees, preaching a simple message of love and peace and challenging the materialism of the powers and principalities of their respective eras.
(The Conversation) — Sociologists who measured supernatural beliefs in the US found that higher education and higher income are associated with lower levels.
NEW YORK (RNS) — Since 2008, Shri Shakti Mariammaa has been a safe haven for women and members of the LGBTQ community. But the temple risks closure if it cannot make costly improvements.
(RNS) — The ruling does not call for the strictly Orthodox rabbinate to ordain women as rabbis but opens up to women the body’s licensing exams that test in a variety of areas of Jewish law.
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