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Need to know: Monday, April 8, 2019
Comments about ‘whiteness’ prompt controversy at Sparrow Women conference
A black speaker at a Christian women's conference on race and social justice told audience members that white supremacy is incompatible with the Bible. She says some audience members walked out and alleges organizers of the Sparrow Women conference tried to erase any signs of her presence at the event.
Future of decades-old CBS religion documentary program in doubt
The network may be ending a stream of faith-related segments that CBS has run since the 1940s.
For storied civil rights center, Highlander Center fire is an echo of the past
This isn't the first time the renowned civil rights center, where the Rev. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks came to strategize, has been targeted.
In Catholic-owned rooming house in Boston, older tenants face displacement
Tenants of Our Lady’s Guild House, a low-income housing property for single women, say its owners, an order of Catholic nuns, have evicted older residents to make way for younger tenants.
Mormon growth continues to slow, church report shows
The LDS Church grew at a rate of 1.21% in 2018, continuing its slow deceleration, writes Jana Riess.
Louisiana looks for answers after fires destroy 3 historically black churches
Federal authorities have now joined the investigation into the fires, which started on March 26 in St. Landry Parish. No deaths or injuries were reported in connection with the fires. But all three churches house generations of worshippers, and their congregants are devastated.
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Kenyan officials try to dispel fears of new ID labeled ‘mark of the beast’
NAIROBI (RNS) — The country's president warned church leaders against misusing their privileged positions to mislead their congregations.
German military to appoint Jewish chaplains and open forces to Muslim imams, too
(RNS) — After the Holocaust, Jewish males born in postwar Germany were exempted from military service, but about 300 volunteers are now in uniform.
New Mormon policy no longer calls same-sex marriage ‘apostasy’
Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will no longer consider same-sex marriage 'apostasy' and will allow the children of LGBT Mormons to be blessed and baptized.
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Mormon leaders reverse LGBT policy, raising the question: What is revelation?
Just over three years ago, Mormon leaders touted a controversial LGBT policy as revelation. Now its reversal is also being presented as revelation, writes Jana Riess.
