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How Deepak Chopra’s AI spirituality is hijacking spiritual hunger
(RNS) — For 50 cents per 30-minute session, or $10 a month, readers can now ask Digital Deepak about their purpose, their fears, their path forward.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 11:29 PM |
Catholic universities search for tricky balance on Trump anti-DEI push
(RNS) — Many Catholic university leaders are trying to thread the needle between staying under the Trump administration’s radar and framing their work with marginalized students as grounded in their Catholic identities.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 10:13 PM |
When Catholic colleges cut theology majors, what happens to Catholic identity?
(RNS) — Just 63% of Catholic higher education institutions have theology or religious studies departments, down from 69% in 2016.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 10:07 PM |
African Christian leaders and health nonprofits seek to fill gaps after USAID cuts
(RNS) — The leaders from 10 countries on the continent called for more local funding to restore essential resources to fight malaria, HIV and tuberculosis.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 8:20 PM |
Pope Leo offers rare insight into his thoughts during the conclave
ISTANBUL, Turkey (RNS) — Pope Leo spoke about the themes of peace and unity that guided his papal visits to Turkey and Lebanon, affirming the Holy See’s commitment to dialogue in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 8:15 PM |
‘Lebanon, stand up!’: Pope Leo revives calls for truth, justice after Beirut port blast
BEIRUT (RNS) — Survivors of the 2020 Beirut port explosion say they are still waiting for the truth as Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon to become ‘a home of justice and fraternity.’
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 5:57 PM |
How modern American women are finding Hinduism’s powerful goddess tradition through dance
(RNS) — Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred dance.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 5:36 PM |
A long-lost Rubens painting depicting Crucifixion sells for $2.7 million
VERSAILLES, France (AP) — It was part of a French collection and was initially thought to be from one of the many Rubens workshops that existed at the time.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 4:47 PM |
United Lutheran Seminary to host ‘A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy’ Conference, February 27–28
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 3:37 PM |
Pope Leo’s visit to psychiatric hospital aims to combat stigma in Lebanon
JAL EL DIB, Lebanon (RNS) — In a country battered by economic collapse and recurring conflict, Pope Leo XIV visited with patients battling trauma, recovering from addiction and dealing with disabilities at the Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 7:09 AM |
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Information as Civic Infrastructure—and How Philanthropy Can Support the Ecosystem
Philanthropy funds solutions but less often invests in the fundamental conditions that make those solutions possible. Among the most fragile of those conditions is the shared information ecosystem on which collective decision-making depends today.
POSTED MARCH 03, 2026 1:41 PM |
What Ohio—and Other States—Can Learn from Minnesota’s ICE Resistance
As the Trump administration targets Springfield’s Haitian community, Ohio and the rest of the country can learn from the organizing that took place in Minnesota.
POSTED MARCH 03, 2026 11:55 AM |
Detroit Was Once Home to 18 Black-Led Hospitals–Here’s How to Understand Their Rise and Fall
The efforts of educated and socially conscious Black Americans in early 20th-century Detroit provide lessons for advancing health equity today.
POSTED MARCH 02, 2026 10:36 AM |
Wellbeing Is Infrastructure
If technology is meant to advance social good, how does this commitment show up inside our own organizations? To explore this question, NPQ will join leaders at the 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference—an annual gathering of those who use technology to make the world a better place. In anticipation of this event, we are launching this
POSTED FEBRUARY 27, 2026 6:57 PM |
Understanding AI’s Thirst for Water: An Explainer
Generative AI is what requires those massive data centers that Big Tech is rushing to build. While they are being marketed as energy-efficient, this explainer digs into their cooling systems and water use.
POSTED FEBRUARY 27, 2026 10:56 AM |
In an Era of Constant Change, Nonprofits Must Foster Learning Cultures
In perennially uncertain times, organizations that prioritize building learning cultures are better equipped to adapt and thrive.
POSTED FEBRUARY 26, 2026 11:43 AM |
Cupcakes, Crisis, and the Cost of Compliance
As the social sector navigates the systems it seeks to improve, what policies and procedures are upheld in obedience yet perpetuate the very problems that leaders are trying to undo? As the field works toward systems change, it is essential to examine how human judgment is abandoned and to understand the consequential impact on the communities served.
POSTED FEBRUARY 25, 2026 3:54 PM |
Who’s Doing the Work? How to Shift Power and Not Just Workloads
Too often, participation in traditional philanthropy means burdensome work for community members, while program staff retain key decision-making power. Here’s how to do it differently.
POSTED FEBRUARY 24, 2026 11:00 AM |
Black History Is Economic History: A Charge Toward Black Futures
The racial wealth divide is not a historical footnote—it is the architecture of the present. But a look at how centuries of extraction built today’s inequities and what structural investment in Black futures requires offers a pathway forward.
POSTED FEBRUARY 23, 2026 6:53 PM |
In the Face of Authoritarianism, Connection Is Resistance
Authoritarian politics tries to break the ties that make self-government possible. But co-governance is a fundamental strategy to counter the rising authoritarian tide.
POSTED FEBRUARY 23, 2026 10:29 AM |
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