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The Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., on May 29, 2013. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Christoffer Lukas Müller
Need to know: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Anti-Muslim hazing leads to felony charges for Wheaton football players
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.
Document revives mystery of Vatican teenager who vanished in ’83
The disclosure this week of a five-page, typewritten document that was stolen from an armored cabinet inside the Vatican has revived the mystery surrounding a 15-year-old who vanished in 1983 (Subscription may be required)
Texas synagogue won’t publicize its High Holy Day service location
If these and other precautions are thought necessary to safeguard Jewish holiday worship services in America, then the public needs to know, writes Steve Russell.
Palestinians decry church patriarch’s role in land deal
Leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church stand accused of selling off land to extremist Jewish settlers in prime locations in Jerusalem's Old City.
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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This Rosh Hashanah, a passionate call to action
Rabbis have always seen their High Holy Day sermons as an opportunity to deliver a potent and impassioned plea, but this year rabbis across the spectrum say they feel a particular urgency to rouse their congregants to action.
Vanderbilt ties racial justice to religion in new program
(RNS) — The Nashville divinity school wants to be a 'national hub' for eradicating racial injustice.
Nabeel Qureshi, who shared conversion from Islam to Christianity, dies at 34
Qureshi, an author and apologist who wrote about his conversion from Islam to Christianity, died Saturday after a yearlong public battle with stomach cancer.
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Scandals in the Catholic Church: Bad news and good news
(RNS) — 'The Vatican is injuring itself by not being more forthcoming in handling accusations of child abuse against one of its diplomats,' writes Tom Reese.
The apotheosis of the religious right
His name is Judge Roy Moore.
Another weird and wonderful Mormon novel from Steven Peck
BYU science prof and Mormon storyteller Steven L. Peck comes through with what may be his weirdest novel yet, and that's saying something. I absolutely loved it.
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