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Barry Young, vice president of Church Security Ministries at Strategos, demonstrates using a tactical pen for self-defense on Marc Anderson of Kalamazoo, Mich., at an intruder awareness and response training Nov. 11, 2017, at Prairie Baptist Church in Scotts, Mich. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller
Need to know: Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Could it happen here? How churches are preparing for a mass shooting
Since the Texas church shooting, a security consultant said he’s been overwhelmed with so many requests that congregations will have to wait up to a year for its training.
Policing themselves? Hate speech watchdog ADL enlists Facebook and others
The Anti-Defamation League unveiled its new Center for Technology and Society, which will combine anti-bias activists and leaders from Facebook, Twitter and other heavy hitters of high-tech to fight hate speech online.
Founder of Florida’s biggest megachurch accused of molesting a 4-year-old girl
Robert Coy, who resigned from Calvary Chapel in April 2014 under circumstances that church leaders then called a “moral failing,” was named to police in 2015 as the man who molested a 4-year-old girl.
The making of an American Nazi
How Andrew Anglin, publisher of The Daily Stormer, orchestrated the anti-Semitic attacks on Whitefish, Montana’s small Jewish community.
Can a robot join the faith?
A medieval Muslim scholar wondered whether a jinn could marry a human. A 17th century Amsterdam rabbi considered counting a golem as a worshipper. Now, Avi Steinberg meditates on the religious nature of artificial intelligence.
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Christian players frustrated by criticism for anthem protest
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Eric Reid and other Christian players who support Colin Kaepernick's social justice movement want believers on the opposite side of the controversial anthem protest to ask themselves a simple but powerful question: What would Jesus do?
Catholic cardinal condemns ‘forces of division’ and fear
(AP) — 'The forces of division prey on our fear of the unfamiliar, the different. But fear is not of God,' said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, in an address to the bishops' fall meeting in Baltimore.
In the Capitol’s shadow, massive Museum of the Bible readies for opening
The 430,000-square-foot museum with a view of the U.S. Capitol is meant to fascinate, educate and — depending on your point of view — evangelize.
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Did early Christians believe that Mary was a teenager? It’s complicated
(The Conversation) — There are many little-known details in early Christian storytelling about the relationship between Mary and Joseph. Listen up, Jim Zeigler.
The Bible story Roy Moore needs to read
Nope, it's not about Joseph and Mary (and wasn't she a virgin, anyway?)
Let’s talk about … Calvin, for a change
Both wings of the Protestant Reformation produced heirs with complex histories, and mixed expressions, including participation in and execution of murderous conflicts such as the Thirty Years’ War.
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