Trauma-informed care is a growing movement across the world, and in the past decade, spiritual directors have increasingly used its methods to deal with clients who suffer from religious trauma and spiritual abuse.

A bishop in the United Methodist Church since 2012, the Rev. Debra Wallace-Padgett will lead an umbrella group of more than 80 Methodist denominations around the world.

The decline of organized religion, the aftermath of a worldwide pandemic, political polarization—and the burden of caring for their congregation’s soul—have left many clergy feeling burned out and wondering how long they can hang on.

This summer, Mark Andrew Jefferson, who was leading a teaching workshop at Princeton Theological Seminary, prompted ChatGPT to write a homily based on the Gospel of Luke’s parable of the good Samaritan.

Ending a yearlong vacancy atop its editorial team, the National Catholic Reporter, the 60-year-old, left-leaning Catholic media outlet, announced that James V. Grimaldi, a senior writer at The Wall Street Journal, has been named executive editor.