"For more than a decade, Catholic nuns and clergy members visited the Broadview facility every Friday ... The coalition included Sister JoAnn Persch, who regularly visited the facility until her death last week at 91." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

“It’s so much harder than I thought it was going to be, but it speaks to me in a way that nothing else ever did.” I visited a growing Orthodox Christian parish in North Carolina to understand why so many young men are converting. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

It was an honor for MK and me to meet with Pope Leo XIV – a son of Illinois – to express the pride and reverence of the people of this great state. Pope Leo XIV’s message of hope, compassion, unity, and peace resonates with Illinoisans of all faiths and traditions.

Nice write-up from @adellembanks.bsky.social of my conversation with Bishop Curry at #TribFest25 last week.

Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9

Several families whose daughters died at Camp Mystic this summer filed suit yesterday against the camp and the Eastland family, who have operated Mystic for decades. “These young girls died because a for-profit camp put profit over safety,” the suit says. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

"God is an anti-vaxxer, and he needs you to speak up." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

my doctor's office parking garage app immediately asking me to rate my experience

Nancy’s Natural Healing Parker, SD

Two bishops with ties to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, including Bishop Robert Barron, criticized the administration’s treatment of Catholics detained by immigration officials this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

this looks cool #medievalsky hyperallergic.com/1054546/met-...

"Now, the most prominent face of progressive religion in the Democratic Party is not a liberal Christian but a Muslim who practices his faith while also creating space for interfaith and secular morality." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

ACNA Archbishop Steve Wood takes leave of absence amid sexual misconduct claims religionnews.com/2025/11/04/a...

NEW from me: An Episcopal priest — a Kenyan national who works with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — has been detained by ICE, says diocese. The area bishop, reached via email, told me church officials still “do not know yet why he was targeted.” religionnews.com/2025/11/02/e...

“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner...November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” -Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865) #everynightapoem #november

"People who feel committed to Jewish life have no choice but to create new Jewish communities.” From the great @emmagoldberg.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

"There's a new moon, he sees scores of stars and a cloud suspended above them in silent expectation, and he marvels at his life, how trivial it is, and fleeting, and how busy it always keeps him nonetheless." (From "The Remembered Soldier" by Anjet Daanje, please do not tell me how it ends!)

“Our students are about to turn subcognitive.”

keywords Wicca, hypnotism, Vegetarian Society, naked wedding, ventriloquism www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

Today La Sagrada Família is having the first part of the crowning cross of the Jesus Tower installed. This will finally take it past Ulm Minster's 161.5 metres (begun 1392, completed with octagon and spire 1885-90) as the tallest church in the world!

I'll be interviewing Bishop Michael Curry, former head of the Episcopal Church, on stage at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin in November. The entire festival lineup is killer, truly. Join me! festival.texastribune.org/event/c17d2d...

“What is the holiest part of a tallit? It’s the fringes. Those that are on the fringes in a committed way bring a sacred aspect to Judaism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

The highest-ranking prelate of the Anglican Church in North America has been formally accused of sexual harassment, plagiarism and bullying by former employees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

"If I show that I am scared to death, that’s not going to do any good for the 9-year-old girls who were terrified." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Looking forward to this conversation with Bishop Michael Curry at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin next month. (More on this later, but I just saw ticket prices are going up tomorrow!) festival.texastribune.org/event/c17d2d...

Political scientist Hahrie Han has just been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow. Here's my 2024 review of her excellent book "Undivided": www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/b...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Tens of thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered over the weekend in Salt Lake City for a meeting that fell at a heavy moment for the church. My dispatch: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Knowing the signs of a stroke can save a life ... for example I am having one right now, pretty sure

I've had this on my "to-read" since @ruthgraham.bsky.social raved about it years and years ago (her review here: slate.com/culture/2017...). It's extraordinary, perfect mix of psychologically insightful plus dramatic plus existential.

After almost a year in which the role was vacant, a new Archbishop of Canterbury: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...

Burying the lede, @drmoore.bsky.social announces Marvin Olasky as the next EIC of @christianitytoday.com in the 10th paragraph of his newsletter. www.christianitytoday.com/newsletter/a...

Camp Mystic is reopening, and planning to build a memorial that families of the 27 girls who died say they were not consulted about and do not want. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

"In the Talmud, there’s about 5,000 recorded arguments, and only 50 of them get resolved. We can look at that and say, 'We have a 1 percent success rate.' Or we can look at it and say, 'No, we have a 99 percent success rate.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

Elizabeth Dias and I talked with stunned pastors and conservative Christian activists yesterday about Charlie Kirk, who began his career as a secular provocateur but in recent years spoke often to conservative Christian audiences about his own faith. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Pope Leo canonizes the first two saints of his papacy, including Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia as a teenager in 2006 and whose tomb has become a pilgrimage site. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/w...

“By turning the cheek, you’re actually looking that person in the eye. It’s not a submissive thing. It’s an act of defiance." @jdavidgoodman.bsky.social reports on James Talarico's entry into the Senate race in Texas: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

big moment for my old stomping grounds, the Delta Dental Stadium www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/n...

"There’s a solidarity and a love that transcends regular living." With Mitch Smith, Ann Hinga Klein and Dan Simmons: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...

The Shaker population has risen by 50%: www.npr.org/2025/08/19/n...

If I only had one tight paragraph to summarize the entire concept and context of "Love thy neighbor," I would definitely include 100% of this information

"for sale: baby shoes, never worn" is great but have you ever read YouTube comments

Pastors and their denominations grapple with the legal and theological implications of the kinda-sorta dismantling of the Johnson Amendment: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

"One of the topics they talk about a lot is that non-religiousness or atheism is so last-season." www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Love this @mlamster.bsky.social round-up of Dallas's best sacred architecture: www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

Read Dan Kois on the remarkable comeback of Chili's, "a restaurant that delivers big, popular things to the big, fat American middle" (complimentary!). Pure delight: slate.com/business/202...

"Whatever this feminist BS is — chase a career, leave your family — it’s not working." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

I love New York Books & Magazines at the corner of Central Park West and 78th Avenue

"Light to push the sails, read the data, cities glow! Hands type the keys, click the mouse, out we go!" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...