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How Deepak Chopra’s AI spirituality is hijacking spiritual hunger
(RNS) — For 50 cents per 30-minute session, or $10 a month, readers can now ask Digital Deepak about their purpose, their fears, their path forward.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 11:29 PM |
Catholic universities search for tricky balance on Trump anti-DEI push
(RNS) — Many Catholic university leaders are trying to thread the needle between staying under the Trump administration’s radar and framing their work with marginalized students as grounded in their Catholic identities.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 10:13 PM |
When Catholic colleges cut theology majors, what happens to Catholic identity?
(RNS) — Just 63% of Catholic higher education institutions have theology or religious studies departments, down from 69% in 2016.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 10:07 PM |
African Christian leaders and health nonprofits seek to fill gaps after USAID cuts
(RNS) — The leaders from 10 countries on the continent called for more local funding to restore essential resources to fight malaria, HIV and tuberculosis.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 8:20 PM |
Pope Leo offers rare insight into his thoughts during the conclave
ISTANBUL, Turkey (RNS) — Pope Leo spoke about the themes of peace and unity that guided his papal visits to Turkey and Lebanon, affirming the Holy See’s commitment to dialogue in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 8:15 PM |
‘Lebanon, stand up!’: Pope Leo revives calls for truth, justice after Beirut port blast
BEIRUT (RNS) — Survivors of the 2020 Beirut port explosion say they are still waiting for the truth as Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon to become ‘a home of justice and fraternity.’
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 5:57 PM |
How modern American women are finding Hinduism’s powerful goddess tradition through dance
(RNS) — Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred dance.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 5:36 PM |
A long-lost Rubens painting depicting Crucifixion sells for $2.7 million
VERSAILLES, France (AP) — It was part of a French collection and was initially thought to be from one of the many Rubens workshops that existed at the time.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 4:47 PM |
United Lutheran Seminary to host ‘A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy’ Conference, February 27–28
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 3:37 PM |
Pope Leo’s visit to psychiatric hospital aims to combat stigma in Lebanon
JAL EL DIB, Lebanon (RNS) — In a country battered by economic collapse and recurring conflict, Pope Leo XIV visited with patients battling trauma, recovering from addiction and dealing with disabilities at the Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 7:09 AM |
Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Democracy Needs You: 5 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to Support Free and Fair Elections Nonprofits may not see promoting voting as essential to their mission, but right now, there may be no more important civic duty.
POSTED APRIL 07, 2026 1:29 PM |
Supreme Court Says Colorado Can’t Ban Conversion Therapy for LGBTQ+ Youth The case was brought by a Christian counselor who argued that Colorado’s ban violated her free speech rights.
POSTED APRIL 07, 2026 10:20 AM |
Finally Free, Leonard Peltier Offers Intergenerational Wisdom for Resistance Indigenous leader, activist, and revolutionary Leonard Peltier was illegally convicted and imprisoned for 49 years and two months. On January 20, 2025, shortly before leaving office, President Biden commuted his sentence, allowing many of those who fought for his freedom to rejoice—and hear him speak in person on the continuing fight for liberation.
POSTED APRIL 06, 2026 12:26 PM |
Philanthropy’s Drag Coefficient: When Process Costs More Than Failure To approve and administer funding, the philanthropic sector relies on bureaucratic processes that introduce drag into the system, ultimately hindering organizations from getting important work done.
POSTED APRIL 06, 2026 12:17 PM |
The Birth Control Pill and Cancer: What Are the Risks? A flood of recent social media posts described hormonal birth control pills as cancer causing, but the facts are more nuanced than what the posts say.
POSTED APRIL 06, 2026 10:08 AM |
Using AI for Fundraising Still Requires Human Strategy Rochelle M. Jerry, CFRM, answers a reader’s question about how leaders should think about the role of AI in their processes.
POSTED APRIL 02, 2026 2:00 PM |
How Dissolving Your Nonprofit Can Strengthen the Sector In the nonprofit sector, failure is often viewed as a weakness. Yet surviving is not always synonymous with thriving. In some cases, the most responsible act of leadership is to consider unconventional alternatives such as dissolving with intention, integrity, and transparency.
POSTED APRIL 02, 2026 12:10 PM |
AI in the Nonprofit Sector Is a Question of Governance, Not Just Technology AI is being adopted across the nonprofit sector. The urgent question is whether nonprofits will shape how AI is governed, funded, and constrained, or whether those decisions will be made primarily by vendors, markets, and states.
POSTED APRIL 01, 2026 2:42 PM |
Politics in an Attention Economy Politicians and campaigns today must break through our algorithmic attention economy by using storytelling to connect with voters, draw in unlikely supporters, and help people imagine a better future.
POSTED MARCH 31, 2026 1:02 PM |
How to Undermine Authoritarian Control: On Empowering Parallel Institutions Science and democracy are under attack. We have the tools, knowledge, and lessons from history to preserve critical services and protect scientific truth—by building powerful parallel institutions.
POSTED MARCH 30, 2026 3:30 PM |
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