(RNS) Religious broadcaster James Dobson will leave the “Focus on the Family” radio program in late February but will continue on the airwaves through a new ministry. Officials at the Colorado-based ministry that Dobson founded three decades ago say they don’t see his plans, which Dobson announced on his Facebook page, as competition. “No, we…

For Deborah Taylor, keeping her body fit and eating well is a way of honoring her Lord. So when Taylor, a financial assistant for University Hospitals Ireland Cancer Center, heard of the hospital’s Body & Soul program for black churches to help their congregations get healthier, she took action. Soon, Taylor’s church, Faith Temple Church…

(RNS) Mary Daly, a self-described post-Christian, radical feminist theologian known for pioneering women’s studies and battling administrators at Boston College, died Sunday (Jan. 3) at age 81. Daly’s death was announced by Mary E. Hunt, director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, in the Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion. Hunt said…

BOSTON – A Massachusetts pharmacy college instituted a ban on clothing that obscures the face, including face veils and burqas, weeks after a Muslim alumnus who is also the son of a professor was charged with plotting terror strikes. The policy change at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services, announced in a campus-wide…

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