RNS Updated Budget — Wednesday, August 5, 2020

A small United Methodist church in Texas is ‘absolutely heartbroken’ after losing its pastor to the coronavirus, according to the church’s district superintendent. By Emily McFarlan Miller. 682 words. (category: a) NEWS STORY RNS-Secret-Movie: In “The Secret: Dare […]

NEWS STORY
RNS-Texas-Church: COVID-19 death of ‘well-loved’ Texas pastor shows coronavirus spread to rural areas
(RNS) — A small United Methodist church in Texas is ‘absolutely heartbroken’ after losing its pastor to the coronavirus, according to the church’s district superintendent. By Emily McFarlan Miller. 682 words. (category: a)

NEWS STORY
RNS-Secret-Movie: In “The Secret: Dare to Dream,” the law of attraction plays a starring role
(RNS) — The Secret: Dare to Dream,” a film based on the bestselling book “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne, released on July 31. Starring Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas, this Hallmark-esque film offers a dose of inspirational spirituality amid the rise of depression and anxiety during the current pandemic. By Kathryn Post. 700 words. (category: a)

NEWS STORY
RNS-Vatican-Nuns: Magazine report is aimed at silencing nuns on sex abuse, says Vatican critic
(RNS) – A recent article on an Italian Jesuit run magazine detailed the abuse of power that exists within female religious congregations. But according to the former head of the Vatican magazine on women it represents an effort to undermine the newfound voice of female religious. By Claire Giangravè. 900 words. (category: i)


COMMENTARY
RNS-Rudin-Oped: Truman, Hiroshima and race
(RNS) — Much of the world focused on President Harry Truman’s explanation for using the bomb 75 years ago, but the Japanese I met had a different question: Would the United States have used the atomic bomb against Nazi Germany, a nation of white Europeans? By A. James Rudin. 1,034 words. (category: k)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Waldman-Oped: Will Tammy Duckworth be the first deist veep nominee since Thomas Jefferson?
(RNS) — Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who is actively being considered as Joe Biden’s running mate, has an unusual religious pedigree. Her mother is an active Buddhist, her father was Southern Baptist – but she describes herself using a term rarely used by modern politicians. “I think of myself as a deist,” she told a group of constituents in 2012. If the Illinois senator becomes a national candidate it’s likely the Founding Father’s faith tradition will come to be as controversial as it was in the 19th century. By Steven Waldman. 834 words. (category: k)