Bob Smietana is a national religion writer and freelance journalist. He has written for various publications, including Religion News Service, The Washington Post, and The Gospel Coalition. His work covers a range of topics related to religion, including abuse within religious organizations, leadership changes, and legal cases involving pastors.
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Bob Smietana covers a wide range of topics, primarily focusing on culture and society with an emphasis on religious organizations, lawsuits, church abuse, community development, and international relief efforts. His articles often involve legal policy regulation and government announcements.
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By: Bob Smietana
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (RNS) — Jim Wallis and Donald Trump believe in their own ways that the Bible can save America.
By: Bob Smietana
Seminary leaders say that the country, where Baptists are the largest Protestant denomination, has lost hundreds of churches in the war with Russia.
By: David Adams, Bob Smietana
A plan to save a troubled historic Episcopal seminary in New York has come under fire after seven bishops registered their opposition to offering a long-term lease of the seminary to a non-profit with alleged ties to a Catholic music school funded by a conservative donor.
By: Bob Smietana
(RNS) — A plan to save a troubled historic Episcopal seminary in New York has come under fire after seven bishops registered their opposition to offering a long-term lease of the seminary to a nonprofit with alleged ties to a Catholic music school funded by a conservative donor.
By: Bob Smietana
(RNS) — When Calvin University hired Wiebe Boer as its new president in May 2022, the school signed the former business executive to a lucrative five-year deal.
By: Bob Smietana
The memoir is a story of friends lost and found and starting over after the life you thought you had vanishes.
ROCKFORD, Ill (RNS) — In early April, just a few days after Easter, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church was filled with sounds of new life.
By: David Adams, Bob Smietana
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on how a struggling Lutheran church has found new life by giving its building to the YMCA…
By: Bob Smietana
(RNS) — The legions of dudes who crowded into the Great Southern Bank Arena in Springfield, Missouri, for the recent Stronger Men's Conference , sponsored
Musician Sean Feucht leads a version of "How Great Is Our God" with a bullhorn during the “United for Israel” march at Columbia University, April 25, 2024, in Manhattan, New York. (RNS photo/Fiona André)
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