(RNS) — In a barnburner Yom Kippur sermon Monday (Sept. 25), Rabbi Sharon Brous said elements of Israel’s new government have a messianic agenda that aims to turn the country into a fascist theocracy.

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On Josh Ritter's most recent album, 2013's The Beast In Its Tracks, the singer-songwriter dredged through the battered ruins of his own post-divorce psyche. As such, the record looked relentlessly ...

A Messianic Jewish pastor said on Saturday that the terrorists involved in the San Bernadino attacks 'went straight to hell' during a memorial service for one of the victims. Bruce Dowell, who is ...

Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter owes his success to one night in Boston. He was at an open mic night, and singer Glen Hansard, from the hit Irish rock band The Frames, was in the audience. Hansard liked ...

On his eighth album, Ritter delves into what he calls "messianic oracular honky-tonk." Fortunately, it's an approach that brings out some of the... Note: NPR's audio for First Listens comes down after ...