UCC in Focus
This year, let’s take stock of how we celebrate the birth of Jesus
I wonder if we might take this as a year to let our Advent and Christmas lie fallow
Religion
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Spirituality
This church’s All Saints’ Day rituals are even more meaningful this year
All Saints' Episcopal Church's service focuses not just on remembering the dead but also how the living can experience community through them
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Spirituality
Texas United Methodists take up call to replace logo over link to racist imagery
The denomination's emblem reminds one pastor of the first burning cross he saw
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Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was shaped by her minority faith
Ginsburg, who died Friday, was passionate about Judaism’s concern for justice
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Spirituality
Amid COVID-19, shofar lessons become pre-Rosh Hashanah necessity
With synagogues shuttered, some Jews are taking online classes to learn how to play the ritual objects
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Justice
Muslim detainees forced to pick between pork and rotten halal food: lawyers
ICE officers at a Miami facility have repeatedly violated detainees' religious freedom rights, advocates say
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Spirituality
Children’s Bibles are North America’s unlikeliest publishing success story
Christian comics and storybooks aim to get scripture into the hands and hearts of a new generation
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Justice
U.S. Jews use the day of lament to cry out to God for Black lives
Tisha B’Av has become a means to collectively mourn violence against Black people
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Spirituality
Barbecue Baptist Church delivers meals and a little levity
Along with the food, a Texas outreach program offers a message of hope
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Spirituality
Ontario United church holding small in-person services
Many people in the small congregation don't have internet access and were glad to be back, said the minister
