Life Archives - callendarnews

June 22, 2024

Tree of Life Synagogue to Break Ground on New Sanctuary, and New Mission

Debates over antisemitism have flared for months on college campuses, in local government meetings and in Congress, in many cases boiling down to bitter disagreements over […]

May 9, 2024

A Former Guantánamo Prisoner’s New Life

On the 15th night of Ramadan in a suburb of Belize City, Majid Khan and his family of four sat down for a traditional iftar meal […]

September 30, 2023

Lori Teresa Yearwood, Journalist of Life on the Edge, Dies at 57

Lori Teresa Yearwood, a journalist who after an excruciating spiral into two years of homelessness returned to reporting and wrote both about her ordeal and about […]

July 1, 2023

An Early Heat Wave Upsets the Rhythm of Life in the South

The drum line stood beneath a canopy of trees and rattled through rolls of sextuplets, with reddened shoulders glistening. As the sun blistered the parking lot, […]

March 5, 2023

Nations Agree on Language for Historic Treaty to Protect Ocean Life

After two decades of planning and talks that culminated in a grueling race over the past few days in New York, a significant majority of nations […]

March 4, 2023

Judge Sentences Alex Murdaugh to Life in Prison, Condemning His ‘Lies’

For some around the state, there were questions about whether the state attorney general’s decision not to seek the death penalty had been a final moment […]

March 3, 2023

Pieces of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s Life Together Head to Auction

Shackles from the film “Cool Hand Luke”; a script from the 1963 comedy “A New Kind of Love”; the wedding dress that Joanne Woodward wore the […]

January 20, 2023

After Roe Decision, March for Life Kicks Off in Washington

While the march brought out many veterans of the movement, it also attracted some newcomers. Holli Shelton said she had an abortion when she was 18 […]

January 2, 2023

The Question of Life Itself

This past year, I’ve reported frequently on the topic of abortion when it intersects with my beat as the national religion correspondent for The Times. In […]