Updated 2/6/26 | Hundreds and thousands gather in Virginia to greet Buddhist monks walking for peace, as their 2,300-mile journey nears Washington, D.C.
After the 2025 elections, Trumpism’s once-solid coalition is fracturing; evangelicals drifting, white women reassessing, and rising grassroots movements challenging fear-based politics.
Running for the Texas Senate, former teacher and seminarian James Talarico is reframing politics as moral work, challenging the rise of Christian nationalism with a theology of empathy, courage, and civic grace.
Nancy Rynes’ near-death experience turned tragedy into awakening. Once an atheist scientist, she returned from death with lessons of love, interconnectedness, and gratitude that now guide her life.
More than a miraculous recovery, Anita’s story invites us to expand our understanding of death and life itself, and to live with greater courage, presence, and purpose.
