Rev. Miriam Gentle is the pastor at Northwest United Protestant Church in Richland, Wash. (Credit: Anna King / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 3:27) Read Religious leaders east of the Cascades in […]Read More
In 1965, two young fans heard the jazz giant John Coltrane play at a San Francisco club and had a religious epiphany. Their church is an idiosyncratic and joyful blend of devotion to the divine — and to jazz.Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN, Wash. – As Pullman continues to watch Coviid-19 cases increase, Father Steve Dublinski of Sacred Heart Catholic Church finds himself stuck in the middle of it all. […]Read More
Some see government bans on large public gatherings as attacks on religious freedom when they are applied to houses of worship.Read More
Holden Matthews has stated that he committed the crimes in an attempt to break into the "black metal" music scene. He set three historically black churches on fire during a 10-day period.Read More
The dedication at the Washington National Cathedral of an official Bible of the new U.S. Space Force is being criticized as a violation of laws separating church and state.Read More
As the percentage of Americans who belong to a church, mosque or synagogue declines, congregations are selling their buildings. Some of those former houses of worship are finding new life.Read More
Holy Week for Catholics is the week leading up to Easter Sunday creating a time of reflection and prayer, but that was interrupted abruptly when a Catholic symbol, Notre Dame Cathedral, was engulfed in flames. Local Catholics see this as a way to reunite the faith around the world and as a time to help the people of France a half a world away. Read More
The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, came into being in 1845 as the church of Southern slaveholders.
Now, 173 years later, Southern Baptist leaders are not just acknowledging their dark history; they are documenting it, as if by telling the story in wrenching detail, they may finally be freed of its taint.Read More
