NEWS STORY
RNS-Shofar-Lessons: Shofar lessons are becoming a pre-holiday necessity in the age of coronavirus
(RNS) — In the biblical account, the walls of Jericho came tumbling down after Joshua commanded seven priests to blow their ram’s horns or shofars. This year, it will take a lot more than seven priests for the plaintive wail of the shofar to penetrate the walls of Jews sheltering in place for the Jewish High Holidays. That’s because the coronavirus has left nearly all synagogues across the country shuttered. By Yonat Shimron. 850 words. (category: a)
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RNS-Chaplain-Colonel: Army makes history promoting Black woman chaplain to colonel
(RNS) — The Army has promoted an African American woman chaplain to the rank of colonel for the first time. By Adelle M. Banks. 550 words. (category: a)
NEWS STORY
RNS-Kenosha-Vigil: Kenosha prayer vigil at ELCA church calls for confession, lament and justice for Jacob Blake
KENOSHA, Wis. (RNS) — About 200 people — including the head of the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States — gathered Wednesday (Sept. 2) at a prayer vigil in Kenosha to confess and lament the police shooting of Jacob Blake. By Emily McFarlan Miller. 900 words. (category: a)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Denker-Oped: Voter guides show the power and duplicity of American evangelicalism
(RNS) — Voter guides purport to be nonpartisan, adhering to the Johnson Amendment, the 1950s tax code provision that forbids nonprofit organizations like churches from endorsing or opposing political candidates. But of late it’s clear that conservative voter guides are no longer about voting for a Christian agenda but simply seeking to make Christians more conservative, or perhaps better stated, more Trumpian. By Angela Denker. 1,100 words. (category: k)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Singer-Oped: Joy Reid is plain wrong. Muslims are some of our most peaceful citizens.
(RNS) — MSNBC host Joy Reid’s attempt to draw a comparison between President Trump’s tweets stoking violence and “leaders in the Muslim world” helps to reinforce stereotypes that endanger Muslims here in the United States. People in the media, which is where most Americans get their ideas about Islam, need to start applying the same regard for facts to their coverage of Muslims that they purport to do in all their news. By Kevin Singer, Matthew J. Mayhew and Alyssa Rockenbach. 920 words. (category: k)
