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Need to know: Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Christian rock star comes out as gay. Here’s the letter he wrote to the world
“I never wanted to be gay,” Trey Pearson said. “I was scared of what God would think and what all of these people I loved would think about me.”
Michael Muhammad Knight reclaims the magic from Islam’s margins
But his latest book is not really about magic or Islam, since it immediately sets out to defy definitions for either term.
Pope Francis: ‘Whoever judges and scorns others is corrupt and a hypocrite’
Arrogance not only distances us from God but compromises each of our actions and makes our prayer useless, the pontiff warned at his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square.
Judge sentences Catholic to Baptist church pews
Jake Strotman will attend 12 consecutive Sunday services at Morning Star Baptist Church. The wages of a drunken brawl.
E.U. legal opinion upholds employer’s ban on headscarves
A company can bar a Muslim female employee from wearing a headscarf at work, as long as the policy applies to all religious garb and does not single out Islam, the ruling said.
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Bonus tracks
- Can a gorilla be a victim of Pope Francis’ ‘throw-away culture’?
- Do no harm to life on Mars? Ethical limits of the ‘Prime Directive’
- Will social conservatism survive Trump?
- Did a prominent wartime rabbi fail European Jews?
- North Dakota mosque a symbol of Muslims’ long ties in America
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