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Need to know: Wednesday, October 4, 2017
The ‘Splainer: A wedding cake for the Supreme Court
When is a cake not just a decadent dessert but a First Amendment football? When it’s on the docket for the new Supreme Court session.
You have been warned, Pat Robertson!
The best response Richard Mouw ever heard to bad theology about why God causes horrible events such as the Las Vegas shooting came from a bus driver the RNS columnist met once in New Orleans.
Catholic church to make record divestment from fossil fuels
More than 40 Catholic institutions will make the largest ever faith-based divestment, on the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi.
The sukkah goes ultra-luxe: gorgeous flowers, lattice and cashmere — and $10,000 price tag
The ritual huts for the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles are normally built with canvas walls and construction-paper chains and thin bamboo mats for ceilings.
In India, a ghost town and a mythological bridge
For centuries, pilgrims have traveled to the tip of a thumbnail island in southern India where Hindus believe the Lord Rama crossed a bridge to rescue his wife from a demon king in modern Sri Lanka. (Subscription may be required)
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Terrorism, race, religion: Defining the Las Vegas shooting
(AP) — The mass shooting in Las Vegas is the deadliest in modern U.S. history, but is it terrorism?
After the massacre, a Las Vegas church seizes the chance to serve
“This is the day when we get the opportunity to really rise up and serve the city and love the city and demonstrate the love of God for the city,” said Vance Pitman, senior pastor of Hope Church.
Commuting to Nairobi, the train becomes a church
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Self-styled preachers unofficially turn two coaches into church each day, ministering to a mobile congregation that might not otherwise attend a service.
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The gospel for gun-loving Christians
How exactly can someone do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly while carrying a deadly assault rifle? asks David Gringor in a commentary.
Don’t politicize Las Vegas?
(RNS) — Because talking about gun control at a time like this would be like, well, talking about global warming during the hurricane season.
Freud and other ‘god-killers’ are here to stay
Many people of faith, including theologians, pick and choose elements in some of these rivals, considering that they cannot be ignored, but can be argued with across the spectrum of alternatives.
More Catholic than the pope
(RNS) Pope Francis is not afraid of open discussion in the church. Well, he got it.
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