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Need to know: Monday, January 13, 2020
Students expelled over same-sex marriages sue Fuller for discrimination
In an amended complaint filed this week, two former students allege Fuller Theological Seminary violated anti-discrimination laws when it expelled them after learning they were married to people of the same sex.
Marianne Williamson ends presidential bid, says campaign tried her faith
“When people have an image of you that's been deliberately manufactured, moving through that takes spiritual fortitude,” Marianne Williamson said.
Why Jewish mediator Kenneth Feinberg wants to save the United Methodist Church
'I thought that the church and what it stands for and its impact on the day-to-day lives of people was important and that we should step up and try and preserve that, which hopefully we've done,' says Feinberg.
In Jerusalem, thousands of Israeli women mark the end of 7 years of daily Talmud study
This past week, a group of women gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the completion of a Daf Yomi cycle — more than seven years of daily Talmud study.
An open letter from black church leaders and allies to Christianity Today
"We support the magazine's recent call to remove Trump, and offer a rebuke to those pastors and leaders outraged by its support of the president's impeachment."
The gates of hell: Auschwitz 75 years on
The Nazi death camp where more than one million people perished was liberated on 27 January 1945. As one survivor, now aged 90, prepares to commemorate the date, she explains why the Holocaust must never be forgotten… especially in an age of rising antisemitism and nationalism.
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White House considering dramatic expansion of travel ban
The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration by President Donald Trump, according to six people familiar with the deliberations.
Brazil judge orders Netflix to remove film with gay Jesus
A Brazilian judge on Wednesday ordered Netflix to stop showing a Christmas special that some called blasphemous for depicting Jesus as a gay man and which prompted a gasoline bomb attack on the satirists behind the program.
New documents show government targeted NYC pastor for officiating immigrant weddings
"My faith and belief in ministering to the vulnerable brought me to the border,” the Rev. Kaji Douša said. “It's now undeniably clear that the government targeted me for this very calling."
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Johnny Cash’s gospel versus the temptations of nationalism
(RNS) — Cash was an outspoken patriot, and his patriotism made the gospel messages found in his music vulnerable to distortion.
Four Catholic solutions to toxic politics
As the largest church with an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, Catholics have a special obligation to try something before it is too late, writes Thomas Reese.
White evangelicals’ attacks on James Cone are about power, not truth
(RNS) — A specter has been haunting white evangelicalism, in the shape of the late James Cone, a founder of black liberation theology.
