Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at the Islamic Society of North America’s presidential forum in Houston on Sept. 1, 2019. Photo by Melanie Meleekah Villegas and Roderick C. Felder
Need to know: Tuesday, September 3, 2019
At first Muslim presidential forum, Sanders reaps adoration of ISNA attendees
At the Islamic Society of North America's first-ever presidential forum, both Sanders and Julián Castro underscored the need to build solidarity between communities to turn the tide against President Trump in 2020.
Instagram apostasy stirs controversy over Christian ‘influencers’
Living one's spiritual life online leaves these leaders more vulnerable to the huge cost of leaving one's faith.
Anti-extremism program won’t stop hate, say Muslims who’ve seen its flaws
Across the country, the question of engagement in federal Countering Violent Extremism programs—including, in Massachusetts, a half-million dollar police mentorship program targeting Boston’s Somali Muslim youth—continues to divide Muslim communities.
Pope Francis pushes a new theology of climate change
It is not the same as his predecessors', writes Mark Silk.
Why Jimmy Al-Daoud’s deportation and death hurts all Americans
Chaldeans, like other people of minority faiths, need protection and revival, not condemnation and expulsion, writes Weam Namou.
Pope Francis firms up his legacy with appointment of new cardinals
After Oct. 15, 53% of the cardinal electors will have been appointed by Francis, writes Thomas Reese.
Religious discrimination bill: Coalition accused of creating a ‘Trojan horse for hate’
LBTQI advocates have condemned the Australian government’s proposed religious discrimination bill, saying the “radical” new laws would give people of religion superior rights that would allow them to discriminate.
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Pete Buttigieg: Religious left is ‘stirring’
Buttigieg spoke with Religion News Service to discuss sin, immigration, being a religious millennial and whether he can rally the support of a burgeoning religious left movement.
Buttigieg walks fine line in courting religious left
'There is something going on that is so much bigger than party politics right now,' Buttigieg said. 'It’s a kind of stirring or reawakening.'
Dinner church movement sets the table for food, faith and friendships
Dinner churches are popping up across the country in churches in a number of denominations, conservative and progressive, urban and rural and everything in between.
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It’s time to reclaim the pro-worker history of Catholic social teaching
Bishops and other influential Catholics should be at the front of the line when laborers strike to demand just wages, writes John Gehring.
We are not all the same, and in our difference we are divine
Seeing oneness in difference is the only way I know for us to move beyond our supremacies and to begin treating one another as equals, writes Simran Jeet Singh.
By their tweets you will know them: The Democrats’ continuing God gap
If they want to win back the White House, Democrats need to reach Christian voters. At least on social media, Democratic candidates are failing to do so, writes Ryan Burge.
