The Lewisville school district has always allowed students to say prayers at high school graduations. That tradition will continue this year, except these prayers will not be called invocations or ...

(RNS) — When President Joe Biden finished his speech before the Democratic National Convention on Monday night (Aug. 19), most major television news networks quickly cut to pundit analysis of the man ...

Reclaiming the lost art of blessing. I like to ask people new to our congregation about their first impressions of Village Church. Mary's answer surprised me. "I've been part of a church family for as ...

As millions eagerly await Pope Francis' first visit to the United States, an anatomy professor at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine and former orthopedic surgeon offers insight into the likely ...

My last sermon at the Manger was titled “Commission and Benediction” — the final parts of a service of worship. A commission is the work God calls us to do; a benediction is God’s blessing. They ...

Those words will echo through Republican and Democratic convention halls next month as religious personalities step up to the political pulpit. Invoking God at the opening and closing of legislative ...

(RNS) Read the text of Cardinal Timothy Dolan's closing benediction to the Republican convention in Tampa, a prayer that had something to cheer and challenge everyone -- if they were listening. New ...

A study of anatomy, art, religion, and culture overturns the popular explanation for the papal hand of benediction posture. An anatomy professor says an ulnar nerve injury suffered by St. Peter, not a ...