RNS Opening Budget — Thursday, June 24, 2021

Religion News Service

June 24, 2021 at 11:40 a.m. ET

NEWS STORY
RNS-Moral March: Jesse Jackson, William Barber arrested protesting filibuster and Manchin
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Poor People’s Campaign co-chair the Rev. William Barber were among several religious leaders and activists arrested at a faith-led protest outside the U.S. Senate on Wednesday (June 23), where demonstrators demanded West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and other lawmakers abolish the filibuster and pass voting rights legislation. By Jack Jenkins. 900 words. (category: a)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Merritt-Oped: My own personal Jesus: Can he be trusted?
(RNS) — My evangelical upbringing taught me that personal experience could not be trusted. Spiritual truth is absolute, objective, universal and revealed only by God’s word — a truncated way of saying that truth was confined to my leaders’ sanctioned interpretations of the Bible. Over time, I came to see the serious flaws in this. By Jonathan Merritt. 1,550 words. (category: k)

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