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“Jeanne d’Arc écoutant les voix” by Eugene Thirion in 1876 depicts Joan of Arc’s awe upon receiving a vision from the Archangel Michael. Image courtesy of Creative Commons
Need to know: Tuesday, July 11, 2017
The Catholic Church says no to gluten-free communion. Here’s why.
A new Vatican letter on what kinds of bread and wafers should be used during communion actually reaffirms earlier guidelines saying that bread and wafers must have at least some gluten in them.
Samford U. pulls plug on student gay-straight alliance
The president of Samford University decided not to seek formal recognition for a student group that discusses LGBT issues after the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions threatened to withhold funding over the organization.
Medieval mystic maintains hold on the artistic imagination
She was young, illiterate and held power for less than two years, but when she died on a pyre in 1431, she achieved an immortality in art and literature that surpasses kings, popes, knights, priests and courtiers.
At least 6 Hindu pilgrims killed in militant attack in Indian Kashmir
The pilgrims, most of them women on their way back from the Amarnath Cave Temple deep in the Himalyas, were killed in a gun battle that erupted in Indian Kashmir.
Republicans, Democrats divided on impact of religion
Nearly three-quarters of Republicans or those who lean Republican say religious organizations have a positive impact on society, while Democrats are split.
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Eugene Peterson on why he’s leaving public life and whether he fears death
The 84-year-old best-selling author says he has penned his last book. Here's why he's hanging it up.
When the homeless and mentally ill wander into church
(RNS ) — I admit my own discomfort about our homeless and mentally ill visitors.
The precarious vision of Peter Berger
I am choosing to remember the dominant and—to non-sociologists like me—most astonishing aspect of an inventive, creative truth-teller who taught and, through his many writings, will continue to teach us as we pursue cases, when we don’t “just make them up.”
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Bonus tracks
- ‘I was Full of Rage’: Author Rebecca Stott on growing up in a Christian cult
- 3 big problems with running a church like a business
- When the evangelical life is trouble for the soul
- Georgetown’s peeping rabbi is now the subject of a play
- This apocalyptic Korean Christian group goes by different names. Critics say it’s just a cult.
