Muslims condemn savage attack on British soldier

Trevor Grundy

LONDON (RNS) Leaders of Britain’s 2.8 million Muslims reacted with horror and anger following Wednesday’s (May 22) slaughter with knives and machetes of an off-duty British soldier in the streets outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in south London.
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Fear, freedom, and peace

Barbara Benjamin | May 23, 2013

Barbara Benjamin shares an excerpt from her book,Christ Conscious Leadership, as we try to make sense of the global social and economic turmoil around us.
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Supreme Court to hear case on prayer at government meetings

Richard Wolf | May 20, 2013

WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court agreed Monday (May 20) to consider whether prayers can be offered at government meetings — a practice that’s been common in Congress and throughout the states for more than two centuries.
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Democracy and the defeat of radical Islam

Donald G. Ellis | May 16, 2013

University of Hartford Professor Donald Ellis asks what's the United States to do about radical Islam?
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COMMENTARY: President Obama, Mourner in Chief

Tom Ehrich | Apr 30, 2013

(RNS) Five men who know what it means to be president of the United States shared a stage in University Park, Texas. Then the incumbent among them flew to Waco, to mourn 11 first-responders, killed in a fertilizer plant explosion in the small town of West, Texas.
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Catholic bishops: Don’t let Boston attacks derail immigration reform

David Gibson | Apr 23, 2013

(RNS) Leading U.S. Catholic bishops on Monday (April 22) denounced efforts to use the Boston Marathon bombings to derail the push for immigration reform, saying it is wrong to brand all immigrants as dangerous and that a revamped system would in fact make Americans safer.
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