Baptize California prepares for statewide water baptism event, aims for largest synchronized baptism in history

NEW YORK (RNS) — The Vedanta Society of New York is easy to miss. The center of worship, housed in a plain-old brownstone on the Upper West Side, has hosted dozens of monks, lamas and other “spiritual celebrities” over...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — House Speaker Mike Johnson has launched an effort to select a new House chaplain, working with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on a framework to select a new person to fill the post just days after...

(RNS) — Bill McCartney, a former college football coach who became one of the most influential religious figures in American life during the 1990s after founding the Promise Keepers movement, died Friday (Jan. 10). “It...