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RNS-Friendly-Epidemiologist: Meet the Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist encouraging her fellow Christians to get vaccinated
(RNS) — Baptist epidemiologist Emily Smith started Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist, a Facebook page, in March 2020 to share information about the novel coronavirus and answer questions she was hearing from her neighbors and friends. Since then, the page, written in Smith’s friendly, informational voice, has grown to more than 96,000 followers. About half are evangelical Christians, she said. By Emily McFarlan Miller. 1,100 words. (category: a)
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RNS-Tulsa-Reparations: 100 years later, Black church leaders seek reparations for Tulsa massacre
(RNS) — As the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, pauses to mark the massacre of hundreds of Black people in its Greenwood district 100 years ago, African American church leaders are among those saying the time has come to repay as well as to remember. An historic African Methodist Episcopal Church is one of the plaintiffs in a suit filed in September that calls for the city and other defendants to pay reparations to relatives of victims and survivors of the massacre. By Adelle M. Banks. 1,400 words. (category: a)
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RNS-Moore-Resignation: Russell Moore, Baptist ethicist and Trump critic, to leave ERLC for Christianity Today
NASHVILLE (RNS) — After years of controversy, Southern Baptist ethicist and Never-Trumper Russell Moore has resigned from his denomination’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. He’ll join Christianity Today, a major evangelical magazine that also opposed Trump, as a public theologian. By Bob Smietana 830 words. (category: a)