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Need to know: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
21,000 people and 18,000 eggs: The Trump White House holds its first Easter Egg Roll
The president, accompanied by the first lady, son Barron and the Easter Bunny, stepped out on to the Truman Balcony to address the crowd of colorfully dressed families.
Donald Trump’s sudden embrace of religious rhetoric
The theologically challenged Trump has steadily embraced religion — or at least religious rhetoric — during his first 100 days as President Trump.
What Jeffrey John’s rejection says about unity in the Anglican Communion
John has been rejected as a candidate for bishop a remarkable seven times. The reason? The worldwide Anglican Communion's lingering division over homosexuality.
Supreme Court blocks Arkansas from flurry of executions
The court ended a dramatic day of legal tussles over Arkansas’ unprecedented plan to execute eight prisoners in 11 days, declining to allow the state to go ahead with the killings in what amounted to a major victory for the condemned inmates’ lawyers and anti-death penalty campaigners.
A match made in heaven
President Trump’s authoritarian machismo is right in step with a long evangelical tradition of pastor-overlords who anoint themselves with the power to make their own rules—and, in the event of their own occasional moral lapses, assure their followers that God always forgives, writes Molly Worthen in a review of Frances FitzGerald’s new book.
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Latest news from RNS
‘Dirty’ Jakarta election looms as religious politics resurface
JAKARTA (Reuters) The Luar Batang neighborhood is ground zero for the election of the city's governor, dubbed one of the most divisive election campaigns Indonesia has ever seen.
New study shows number of American atheists underreported
(RNS) Could the actual number be as high as 26 percent?
With Trump pick aboard, top US court tackles religious rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) New Justice Neil Gorsuch's judicial record indicates he could tip the court toward siding with a church challenging Missouri's ban on state funding of religious entities.
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As a Christian, I didn’t realize why my Muslim classmates needed a prayer space of their own
(RNS) 'The world around me was constructed to more or less accommodate my faith.'
Do Mormons worship Jesus Christ?
More than 30 years ago, LDS apostle Bruce R. McConkie was adamant that Mormons do not worship Christ. Guest blogger Mette Harrison says otherwise.
The Luv Guv exits
A belated victim of the old-time religion.
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Bonus tracks
- My high school’s Muslim prayer room was a lesson in religious freedom
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- The hard-edged hope of Wendell Berry
- God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism
