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	Saved by the City Eat the Rich! Jesus Had Something to Say About That + Malcolm Foley Katelyn Beaty and Roxanne Stone Katelyn and Roxy talk to Malcom Foley about the insidious legacy of greed on countries, systems and individuals.
	Martini Judaism Is it time to retire the term ‘Zionism’? Jeffrey Salkin (RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.
	Complexified Philip Reed-Butler, Black AI and the future of healing Rev. Amanda Henderson (RNS) — A theologian and technologist is building Black AI for the inner life, where healing begins with imagination.

	Saved by the City Katelyn and Roxy talk to Malcom Foley about the insidious legacy of greed on countries, systems and individuals.
	Martini Judaism (RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.
	Complexified (RNS) — A theologian and technologist is building Black AI for the inner life, where healing begins with imagination.

Beth Kissileff

For cookbook author Adeena Sussman, moving to Tel Aviv reshaped her kitchen — and her life

(RNS) — Her goal, she told a Pittsburgh JCC audience, is to show Israel in a lens not political or religious, but to cook, tell stories and share who she is authentically living there.

Thomas Reese

Pope Leo calls for government action to protect children and workers from AI

(RNS) — Like many of us, Leo fears the tools of the digital age — which hold such promise — have been made poisonous.

Diana Dukhanova

How Russia turned to medieval saints in its push for ‘traditional values’ – and more babies

(The Conversation) — The Russian Orthodox Church is creating another pro-family day, part of a broader ‘traditional values’ campaign run by the government.

Pastor freed from prison in China weeks after Trump requested his release

Ken Moritsugu and Didi Tang

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri and 17 other leaders of the underground Zion Church were detained in October in one of China’s largest crackdowns on a single church in decades, raising worries over an escalation in the government’s curtailing of religious freedom.

Texas approves mandatory Bible readings in public schools, reigniting a century-long debate

Charles J. Russo

(The Conversation) — American courts have heard cases over the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether lessons are constitutional depends on their purpose.

500 years ago, the first New Testament in English was published – and stirred up a hornet’s nest

Michael Bruening

(The Conversation) — William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible in their own language.

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