(RNS) — Frustrated with a church that didn’t reflect his identity, Ralph Moore went into St. Pius Church in West Baltimore late one night with his friends and painted the statues of Jesus and Mary black — a “parting shot” before he left Catholicism. He recalled a Stations of the Cross depiction — painting Jesus…Continue Reading
(RNS) — Zanah Thirus’ latest film, “Daughters of Eve,” has a very specific goal: Dismantle the Christian patriarchy. Raised in a Black Apostolic church in Chicago’s south suburbs, Thirus was active in her nondenominational church’s youth group and homeschooled until attending college at age 14. Today, she’s a Black Christian feminist who often feels caught…Continue Reading
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and the Indigenous communities in Canada, originally scheduled for Friday through Sunday (Dec. 17-20), was postponed due to the pandemic with the promise that the pope might visit the country next year. But the scandals tied to the Christian-run residential schools in Canada,…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert cracked a racist, Islamophobic joke about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, it wasn’t the first time she mocked the Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota. Boebert had derided Omar during a House floor debate last month, taunting the Somali-born, Muslim-American immigrant as a member of the “jihad squad” of liberal…Continue Reading
Mayfield, Kentucky — Several workers injured when a candle factory here was decimated by a tornado Friday night are suing the candle maker, reports CBS Louisville affiliate WLKY-TV. One of the attorneys representing the survivors calls the factory “a modern-day sweatshop.” The suit, filed Tuesday, claims that as tornado warnings came in, employees were told they’d…Continue Reading
(CNN)Five children are dead and another four are critically injured after they fell 32 feet (10 meters) from a bouncy castle lifted into the air by wind at a school event in Australia.Children at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, on the north coast of Tasmania, were celebrating the end of the school year when the…Continue Reading
(CNN)Urban Meyer has been fired after less than a year as head coach of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, team owner Shad Khan said in a statement.”After deliberation over many weeks and a thorough analysis of the entirety of Urban’s tenure with our team, I am bitterly disappointed to arrive at the conclusion that an immediate…Continue Reading
1:47 AM ETDave McMenaminESPN Staff Writer CloseLakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.DALLAS — The odds of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Austin Reaves even being in an NBA uniform on Wednesday night, let alone…Continue Reading
Baby, he was born to (take the money and) run. Bruce Springsteen reportedly sold his iconic song and publishing catalog to Sony Music – for a whopping figure in the ballpark of $500 million, reports said. The deal was first reported by Billboard and would represent one of the most lucrative music catalog deals in…Continue Reading
Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has said that the text messages sent to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the 6 January Capitol riot urging him to get then-President Donald Trump to call off his supporters prove that Mr Trump is innocent of any wrongdoing in connection to the riot. Mr…Continue Reading