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(RNS) — Women’s History Month may have ended, but women’s impact on religion and spirituality goes on year-round. Here are 10 new nonfiction books, both forthcoming and released in the last year, that explore women’s roles and influence in Christian traditions — plus, one bonus work of fiction. “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” by Beth Allison Barr For 40 years, Beth Allison Barr believed “biblical womanhood” meant “God designed women primarily to be submissive wives, virtu...

DETROIT — The Roman Catholic archbishop of Detroit employed a more COVID-safe method of ash distribution during a special Ash Wednesday service downtown. He

Dec 16, 2020, 6:00 am 248 Shares Santo’s Posole Rojo, from the new “A Bite of Boulder” cookbook. (Provided by “A Bite of Boulder) Not long after the coronavirus pandemic forced restaurants to close for on-site dining this spring, Jessica Benjamin was scrolling Instagram when she came across a video of Jennifer Jasinski, Denver chef and restaurant owner, showing how to make ricotta gnocchi. Inspired, Benjamin followed Jasinski’s video recipe and tried making the gnocchi in her Bo...

• Jared Burkholder, Grace College program director for history and political science, contributed an entry to “Faith and History: A Devotional,” a publication edited by Christopher Gehrz and Beth Allison Barr. The book is a collection of short pieces integrating historical reflection with study and prayer. Burkholder and the other contributors are part of the Conference on Faith and History, an organization composed mostly of Christian historians. Grant • WGU Indiana was awarded a $1 m...