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Caring for foster children can be difficult—even devastating. It is also a revelation of the love God gives and expects of his people.

(RNS) — Religion reporting still matters, Mattingly says, but the internet’s ‘preaching to the choir’ algorithms have won out.

Readers discuss a guest essay from a woman’s perspective about why more people aren’t getting married.

Eleven million acres in the Oregon Outback could become the next Dark Skies Sanctuary. Here are ten brilliant spots for seeing the skies.

Julia Duin has worked for six media outlets, mostly recently as Newsweek’s religion correspondent. She lives in the Seattle suburbs with her daughter, Olivia, and two cats named Juneteenth and Velocity. She’s written seven books, including In the House of the Serpent Handler, about young Appalachian pentecostals who take poisonous snakes to church.

Julia Duin, Newsweek’s contributing editor for religion, writes that by the end of 2022, “at least 39 churches, 60 crisis pregnancy centers and medical clinics, and 23 assorted ‘incidents,’ including vandalism, bomb threats, and assaults on police officers, have been directed at abortion opponents across the country.

More than 60 Pentecostal and charismatic leaders have launched a website on which theyve issued a lengthy statement opposing Christian nationalism. See: tinyurl.com/bdcmwjjc

For some, churches are always the problem. Despite decades of efforts to recruit, train, and support families to foster and adopt children who have been neglected, abused, or abandoned, churches still get the blame when things go wrong. Some of these attacks are drearily predictable. Writers like Kathryn Joyce have made careers out of suggesting […]

Newsweek publishes an absurd attack on Christian congregations that encourage the faithful to adopt.

Evangelical Christians once were pioneers in international adoptions and foster care. A "tsunami" of mentally ill and violent children now derails the movement.