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Need to know: Wednesday, October 26, 2016
UMC bishops name commission members
The Council of Bishops has announced the 32 United Methodists who will serve on the commission charged with fostering church unity and bridging the denomination’s deep divisions on homosexuality.
Russell Moore: Religious Right must change or die
The movement must embrace a “gospel-centered” evangelicalism that articulates why Christianity matters rather than using religion as a means toward a political end, the Southern Baptist Convention’s top spokesman for public policy concerns says.
In a first, a Brooklyn yeshiva agrees to $2.1 million child sex abuse settlement
An Orthodox Brooklyn yeshiva has agreed to pay two of its former students $2.1 million for alleged sexual molestation they suffered at age six from a senior rabbi on the school’s faculty—the first known case of such a settlement by a Jewish day school.
What does Trump have to do with the Hindu sacred syllable, om?
What should we make of the candidate and the symbol of Indian spirituality on a poster produced by “Hindus for Trump”?
Tim Kaine recounts missionary work to court Mormon voters in Utah
Writing in the state’s main newspaper, Hillary Clinton’s running-mate likened the work of Mormon missionaries to his experience as a Catholic volunteer in Honduras.
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Vandals paint swastikas around home of Indian-American, Christian candidate
(RNS) Someone sprayed swastikas on Peter Jacob's home.
Jack Chick, cartoonist behind sin and salvation ‘Chick Tracts,’ dies
(RNS) With titles such as 'The Death Cookie' and 'Dark Dungeons,' Chick's illustrated gospel tracts were controversial and campy.
Feds drop Muslim outreach program
Civil rights groups said the effort to intervene with those at risk of radicalization would invade privacy and erode trust in community leaders.
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The politics of Jen Hatmaker: Trump, Black Lives Matter, gay marriage and more
(RNS) The HGTV star and best-selling Christian author holds nothing back in this candid and personal interview.
Retooled LDS website says people can be ‘Mormon and gay’ — but they need to stay celibate
Today, the LDS Church relaunched a website aimed at helping gay Mormons and their families understand how much they are loved. While the Church's doctrine remains the same (no homosexual sex), its approach and language have evolved.
Jack Chick dressed hatred in theology
An evangelical cartoonist has died. His work was hardly the best that Christianity has to offer.
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Bonus tracks
- Smithsonian’s Quran exhibit aims to dazzle the eyes and may soften the heart
- Queer Muslims find solace and solidarity at South Africa retreat
- Vatican to Catholics: Cremation can be OK, but don’t scatter ashes!
- Remembering Jack Chick: The Christian artist who tried to save us from hell
- Remembering Steve Dillon, co-creator of “Preacher”
