In Richard Hays, a rare combination of confidence and contrition (RNS) — All of this full and good life was funded by an unapologetic conviction about the mercy of God at work in the gospel of Jesus Christ. The post In Richard Hays, a rare combination of confidence and contrition appeared first on RNS.

Vatican decides not to put keffiyeh back in nativity VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican had hinted the controversial keffiyeh would be put back in the nativity scene on Christmas Eve. The post Vatican decides not to put keffiyeh back in nativity appeared first on RNS.

Richard Hays, influential scholar who changed his mind on same-sex marriage, has died (RNS) — The renowned New Testament scholar and former dean of Duke Divinity School described his most recent book as an act of repentance for the way his work had been used to harm LGBTQ people and to divide Christians The post Richard Hays, influential scholar who changed his mind on same-sex marriage, has died appeared first on RNS.

January 6th: Bad Theology, Bad for Democracy State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Dr. Robert P. Jones, president of the Public Religion Research Institute, about the rewriting of history around the January 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol and trends in religion and politics at the start of 2025. Also, Paul pays tribute to the late Jimmy Carter. The post January 6th:…

Pardon who? Hunter Biden case renews ethical debate over use and limits of peculiar presidential power (The Conversation) — Despite the controversy surrounding them, presidential pardons can provide a service – the question is how they are used. The post Pardon who? Hunter Biden case renews ethical debate over use and limits of peculiar presidential power appeared first on RNS.

Nightmare Projects You Ditched, Cars That Deserve Deserve To Die, And New Years Wrenching Resolutions In This Week’s QOTD Roundup There are a lot of cars that we might all dream of driving, personally it’s an old Aston Martin DBS thanks to it’s awesome, angular looks and rumbling motor. Just because I want to drive it, doesn’t mean it’d be mind-altering for everyone to drive one, though. – Owen Bellwood Read More Read more…

Cheap BMW i8s, A Rare Plymouth Prowler And A Bad Idea With A 1996 Alfa Romeo GTV Coupe In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup These days, it seems like all the desirable, interesting cars are staying expensive instead of getting cheap so they can ruin the finances of normal people willing to roll the dice on maintenance and repairs. Those may be bad decisions, but we at least want the opportunity to make them, dammit. The BMW i8, on the… Read more…

Cars That Died And The Best Cars We Drove In 2024 In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup Welcome to the future, or as we call it, 2025. It’s time to clear up that hangover, start those New Year’s resolutions and get ready to… work tomorrow, probably. To distract you from that impending doom, let’s talk about the cars that we (as in us at Jalopnik) are most excited for in 2025. – Daniel Golson Read More Read more…

Radioactive Roads, Deadliest Train Crashes Into Fire Truck And Neil Peart’s BMW GS In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Well, they’ve gone and done it. A company in Florida got last-minute approval last week from Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency to build a practice road using radioactive materials. It seems like such an obviously bad idea, but a bad idea never stopped the government. – Erin Marquis Read More Read more…

Weekend News Roundup January 04, 2025 Things aren’t going so great at Volkswagen right now, and while the latest scandal likely won’t rise to the level of the diesel emissions scandal, a security lapse by VW’s in-house software developer Cariad did expose the locations of about 800,000 electric vehicles to hackers. The app owners used to access many of… Read more…

Entering Jubilee 2025 with hope for our common home (RNS) — When we are tempted to lose hope, we must remember that it is not a feeling or an emotion but a virtue. The post Entering Jubilee 2025 with hope for our common home appeared first on RNS.

New Orleans’ attacker deserves to be understood like any Christian mass killer (RNS) — Muslims are exhausted by a double standard that portrays white attackers as mentally ill and all others as ideologically driven terrorists. The post New Orleans’ attacker deserves to be understood like any Christian mass killer appeared first on RNS.

119th Congress adds 2 Hindus, 2 nones, remains mostly Christian (RNS) — Despite America’s shifting religious landscape, the faith of the country’s representatives has changed little. The post 119th Congress adds 2 Hindus, 2 nones, remains mostly Christian appeared first on RNS.

Buddhist group says Army Corps’ Everglades project violates religious freedom (RNS) — A new lawsuit says the project could disrupt a retreat center for Soka Gakkai International-USA, a group popularized by Tina Turner and Orlando Bloom. The post Buddhist group says Army Corps’ Everglades project violates religious freedom appeared first on RNS.

Single Worker Forgot To Bolt Down Seats On Nearly 23,000 KIA EV9 SUVs Pobody’s nerfect, a my mom’s coffee cup like to remind me every morning as a kid. We’ve all made mistakes at work. However, not many of us have made errors that could kill someone under certain circumstances. Kia issued a recall for 22,883 Kia EV9 SUVs from the 2024 and 2025 model years due to missing seat mounting… Read more…

Man Attempts To Hijack Self-Driving Taxi, Gets Ride From The LAPD Instead Anyone who has ever asked a stranger in a coffee shop to watch their laptop knows unattended tech makes an enticing target for thieves. Waymo got yet another reminder of this fact this week after a man in downtown LA attempted to take over one of its driverless cars. Read more…

Does a lack of faith lead to suicide? One study says yes. Scholars of secularism say no. (RNS) — A new study by a Christian scholar found higher rates of suicide and campus sexual assault in states where more nonbelievers live. But others who study secularism say correlation doesn’t prove the case. The post Does a lack of faith lead to suicide? One study says yes. Scholars of secularism say no. appeared first on RNS.

Catholics prepare to celebrate 50 years of first U.S.-born saint (RNS) — Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton founded the first congregation of women religious in the US and the first US Catholic girls’ school. The post Catholics prepare to celebrate 50 years of first U.S.-born saint appeared first on RNS.

Oxen Rescue 550-HP Ferrari California Stranded On Beach In the olden times, people believed that a horse was twice as powerful as an oxen, which is why horses have been called on to pull everything from plows to carriages for centuries. Now, it turns out that a couple of oxen may actually have more oomph than 550 horses, after two of the animals rescued a Ferrari that was… Read more…

Dealerships Are Giving Discounts Again, And It’s Boosting Sales In 2024, car buyers got a very slight respite from the record-high car prices we’ve seen for almost half a decade now, and it seems like that trend will continue through 2025 thanks to dealers offering more and more cash on the hood of new cars. Stock at dealerships has pretty much recovered to pre-pandemic levels,… Read more…