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Every square inch of Congregation Beth Yeshurun in Houston’s Meyerland neighborhood flooded because of Hurricane Harvey. Photo courtesy of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston
Need to know: Thursday, September 21, 2017
After Harvey criticism, Joel Osteen opens church to Jews for High Holy Days
Joel and Victoria Osteen are offering worship space in their stadium-like megachurch to a displaced Jewish congregation.
Teen gives birth after Christian school graduation controversy
Maddi Runkles, the pregnant student who was not allowed to cross the graduation stage at her Maryland Christian school in June, has given birth to a boy.
LDS Church buys printer’s manuscript of Book of Mormon for record $35 million from Community of Christ
The LDS Church paid a record-setting $35 million to buy the printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon.
Michigan doctor believes US ready for first Muslim governor
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a 32-year-old liberal doctor in Detroit, is mounting a surprisingly robust bid to become the nation’s first Muslim governor.
‘This is our community, it’s not for sale,’ say flood-impacted residents
A potential FEMA buyout program would be more devastating to Houston’s Jewish community than Hurricane Harvey’s floodwaters, according to community members.
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Polygamous sect leader pleads guilty to escape, fraud
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A student alleges that five players put him in the back seat of a car and — with Middle Eastern music playing — made offensive comments about Muslims and told him that he was being kidnapped.
The ’Splainer: Will the world end on Saturday?
David Meade, a Christian and self-published author of end-of-the-world predictions, declares that doomsday is Saturday. Here’s more on him and the Armageddon predictors that preceded him.
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(RNS) — The controversy over the appointment of a high-profile scholar is only the most recent manifestation of a Jewish community that is turning ever more fiercely to the right.
The Pope, the Mafia, and the rest of us
So here we have the unquestioned leader of the largest religious organization/communion in the world, the Roman Catholic Church, taking on the presumably most powerful organizational embodiment of crime, at least in the Western world. Who noticed?
Sociologist Rodney Stark gets cranky about religion
Columnist Jonathan Merritt interviews the eminent Baylor professor with “the subtlety of a sledgehammer” on topics including religion, atheism and the benefit of a little heresy.
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