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Need to know: Friday, January 20, 2017
Who’s praying at Trump’s inauguration? A mix of supporters, critics and firsts
Though Trump himself identifies as a Presbyterian, there’s nary a mainline Protestant Christian in sight.
Inflammatory pastor scheduled to preach to Trump before inauguration
Usually the Inauguration Day service draws little notice. But offering the Rev. Robert Jeffress such a prominent pulpit is likely to irk religious minorities, particularly Muslims.
Prosperity, heresy and Trump: Inauguration pastor Paula White answers her critics
It’s not the personal attacks that bother her, she told RNS. The accusations of heresy, though, are a different story: “That’s my Lord, and that’s my Savior, and that is 32 years of my life.”
Will Trump speech meet ‘God’ average for inaugural addresses?
God was the most common theme mentioned by presidents in the 11 most searched inaugural addresses. Will that change?
Ivanka Trump gets a rabbinic pass to travel on Shabbat
Orthodox Jews like the new president’s daughter and her husband are not allowed to drive or ride in a vehicle on the Sabbath, which begins just as the post-inaugural balls in Washington for Trump will be starting.
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Trump sworn in amid protests and a large assortment of clergy
WASHINGTON (RNS) The new president took the oath on two Bibles and then pledged to wipe out "radical Islamic terrorism" in a dark speech cheered by supporters and protested by foes.
FBI probing wave of bomb threats to U.S. Jewish centers
NEW YORK (Reuters) Twenty-seven Jewish community centers in 17 states received false threats, the second wave of hoax attacks to target U.S. Jewish facilities this month.
Why the legacy of Shakers will endure
Marked as it may be by sadness, perhaps their inevitable individual “death” is necessary in order to reach their fullest bloom and bear their richest fruit within the culture that survives them, writes Joanne Pierce.
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Does the presidency have a prayer?
How is America different? Another reason that you never considered before.
Welcome to the Trump era. Hold onto your hope.
A former Obama White House staffer says all Americans have reason to hope in the age of Trump.
Furies over immigration
In his homily at mass for National Migration Week, [Cardinal Cupich] asked for constructive dialogue on the way to "[a] conversion. A new way of thinking about those who are strangers."
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