At the Opera, the Holocaust remembered
A new performance is is loosely inspired by the real-life friendship of a Polish Jew named Yehuda Nir, who survived concentration camps, and Gottfried Wagner, a German descendent of composer Richard Wagner who became very critical of his family’s involvement with the Nazis.
Nonbelievers take Sunday Assembly for a spin
The endeavor speaks to an increasingly secular society still hungry for wonder and community.
Bolz-Weber talks in Washington about Christianity and Oprah
Washington got a taste of the closest thing liberal Christianity has to a star when weightlifter-comic-pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber came to town Tuesday night.
Bolz-Weber’s liberal, foulmouthed articulation of Christianity speaks to fed-up believers
Nadia Bolz-Weber, a tattooed, weight-lifting onetime comic, explains her new vision for liberal believers.
Metro pulled out his flowers, but guerrilla gardener pops back up in Dupont Circle
Flower-power activist installs protest art in Dupont Metro, prompting debate about power and beauty.
D.C. synagogue sets Torah study into a modern setting
Adas Israel synagogue creates a room with coffee and WiFi for the group reading of ancient texts.
Conservative Catholics question Pope Francis’s approach
Some traditionalists concerned that his all-embracing style runs counter to clear, defined teachings
Shutdown City: Federal workers anxiously idled on first full day of furlough
Thousands of laid-off federal workers face the same uneasy question: Now what?
Pope Francis stirs debate yet again with interview with an atheist Italian journalist
In talk with atheist Italian journalist, pontiff calls efforts to convert people to Christianity “solemn nonsense.”
Poll: American Jews identifying as more cultural, less religious
Are the findings evidence of more acceptance, or do they portend the fading of all but Orthodox Jewish life?
Catholics moved as date is set for canonizing Pope John Paul II, Pope John XXIII
Pope Francis has set the date for making saints of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII as April 27.
Poll: Hispanics becoming less Catholic
An increasing number identify themselves as evangelical or unaffiliated, the Public Religion Research Institute found.
Pope Francis to announce date when popes John XXIII and John Paul II will be made saints
The canonizations of popes John XXIII and John Paul II will likely be a massive event around Easter 2014.
Group wants dialogue with vandals of Ten Commandments statue
Faith and Action installed the Ten Commandments statue on its lawn near the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006.
In interviews, gestures, Catholic Church experts see savvy pope wooing the middle
The cardinals who picked the pope wanted a pastor and communicator. Is this what they had in mind?
Pope Francis identifies with regular Catholics
In an interview, the pope says he embraces traditional teachings but he’s “not a right-winger.”
Eyewitness accounts from the Navy Yard
People on the scene remember hearing the terror and running for safety.
Outside Navy Yard’s walls, a neighborhood transformed
The gentrifying area south of the Capitol was once associated with crime and empty lots.
Should observing the Jewish Sabbath mean switching off the Internet?
On Yom Kippur, some Jews will be staring at screens in synagogues while others will remain tech-free
High holidays a juggling act of piety, politics for Jewish members of Congress
Members try to observe their faith while following intense debate over Syria.
Michelle’s path to her dream job as religion reporter began as a kid, trying to make sense of a kosher Jewish home that had three sets of dishes: meat, milk and Chinese food. Her career included a decade of globe-trotting with The Associated Press, covering everything from domestic terrorism in the Arizona desert to debates on male circumcision to Ugandan royalty and how strapped doctors in Afghanistan decide who lives and who dies.
Since January 2006 she’s been the Post’s religion reporter, where she reports on the busy marketplace of American religion. She has a Master’s (in Near Eastern Studies), a husband, a son and just two sets of dishes. The Religion Newswriters Association awarded her its “Religion Reporter of the Year” award for religion writing in large news organizations in 2011 and 2013.
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