[slingshot_ad name=”Slingshot Banner Ad”]
Need to know: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Trump’s Latest travel restrictions are ‘still a Muslim ban’
“The administration is once again making cosmetic adjustments to the Muslim ban in hopes that it will pass the barest possible definition of anything else,” writes Auditi Guha.
Suing inmate says prison force-fed Christianity to prisoners
Church and state are too cozy at the Topeka Correctional Facility, according to a convicted murderer who has spent the past 23 years inside Kansas’ prison system. (Subscription may be required)
Orthodox rabbi to host ‘alternative Yom Kippur’ service in beer garden
Jews are supposed to abstain from food and drink on the most holy day of the Jewish year. So why is this rabbi holding services in a bar?
First Muslim college in US buys Lutheran seminary campus in Berkeley
Zaytuna College, the nation’s first accredited Muslim college, paid $10 million for the 10-acre Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary on a hilltop in Berkeley.
Study finds Saudi government still tolerates hate speech
The Saudi government continues to tolerate hate speech by some clerics against Shiites while Saudi public school textbooks still include language that discriminates against other forms of worship, according to a new Human Rights Watch study.
Protecting the sacred: water, the environment and climate change
This 30-minute video looks at how religious leaders, ethicists and environmentalists are uniting to protect what is holy to them all — water.
[slingshot_ad name=”Slingshot Middle Cube Ad”]
Latest news from RNS
Church used unemployment scam to stoke funds, ex-members say
SPINDALE, N.C. (AP) — Members of Word of Faith Fellowship say their leader coerced congregants into filing false unemployment claims after the faltering economy threatened weekly tithes from church-affiliated companies.
Barbara Blaine, founder of abuse victims group SNAP, dies
CHICAGO (AP) — The organization known as SNAP announced on its Facebook page that Blaine died Sunday (Sept. 24) after a recent cardiac event.
Officials: 1 dead, 7 victims hurt in church shooting
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A masked gunman entered a church in Tennessee on Sunday and opened fire, killing at least one person and injuring seven others before apparently shooting himself, an official said.
More views from RNS
Religious cyber-vigilantism on the rise
From tradition to tradition there's a family resemblance.
Hello! Most Mormons actually do drink caffeinated soda
(RNS) — Last week's announcement that caffeinated sodas would be sold at BYU confirmed what we found in the Next Mormons study: Two-thirds of Mormons already imbibe.
Jews will not replace us! (And you will not replace Judaism!)
David Bowie got it right: This is not America. It is time for Jews to proclaim a better way.
[slingshot_ad name=”Slingshot Bottom Cube Ad”]
