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Writing about the spiritual and supernatural. Bylines in @RNS, @washingtonpost, @AP, @CTmagazine, @ChristianCent, etc. Formerly at RNS, @suntimes, @couriernews.

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Living with the Amish is actually no romance novel, one woman explains

Living with the Amish is actually no romance novel, one woman explains

Emma Gingerich’s memoir, “Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape,” documents her departure from the Amish, the …

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Get the 'Net 1.1: Soul care for the Internet

Get the 'Net 1.1: Soul care for the Internet

Nobody talks about soul care for journalists - probably because nobody thinks we actually have souls.

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Pope Francis on Google Hangout: 'Dinosaur' when it comes to technology

Pope Francis on Google Hangout: 'Dinosaur' when it comes to technology

Pope Francis said he is a "dinosaur" when it comes to technology. Ironically, his comments came during his se…

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A Clean Break from Technology

A Clean Break from Technology

That’s when I realized I had a problem: I needed to log off, needed a clean break from the technology that ha…

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Do Miracles Still Happen?

Do Miracles Still Happen?

Nearly 80 percent of Americans say they believe in miracles, according to a 2010 report by Pew Research Cente…

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Archbishop Cupich pens foreword for Pope Francis' new book

Archbishop Cupich pens foreword for Pope Francis' new book

It was September 2014, and Chicago-based Loyola Press was negotiating for the rights to publish the North Ame…

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Report Ranks Countries Where Religion Faces Highest Government and Social Persecution

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By Emily McFarlan Miller
| Church Leaders Verified
(RNS) — A report by Pew Research Center on international religious freedom named Egypt, Syria, Pakistan and Iraq as the countries where both government restrictions and social hostility most limit the ability of religious minorities to practice their faith. Governmental attacks and social hostility toward various religions usually “go hand in hand,” said the report, the 15th annual edition of a report that tracks the evolution of governments restrictions on religion.
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Hearts and Ashes: 10 Ways To Celebrate Ash Wednesday on Valentine’s Day

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By Roxanne Stone Verified, Emily McFarlan Miller, mainline Protestant Christianity
| Church Leaders Verified
(RNS) — This year really puts the “’til death do us part” in the holiday of love. When Ash Wednesday—the first day of the Christian season of penance—falls on Valentine’s Day (or is it the other way around?), it’s a curious marriage of holidays most sorrowful and saccharine. As priests draw a cross in ash on foreheads with the words “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return,” the observant are faced with the ephemerality of life—and love.
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ELCA Hears From Indigenous Boarding School Survivor Ahead of National Day of Remembrance

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By Emily McFarlan Miller, Jeremy Fuzy Verified, Jeremy Füzy
| Word And Way
(RNS) — George McCauley can still hear the school secretary’s voice calling his name over the loudspeaker on the wall of his 11th grade English classroom. He can still remember walking back to his dorm at the Flandreau Indian School in South Dakota, wondering what he had done wrong, and the school official who met him there, telling him instead that his mother had died. More than 50 years later, he can still feel the numbness of that moment, far away from his family.
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