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Need to know: Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Jimmy Carter plans Baptist conference for unity
The former president wants to address racial rifts he believes are widening.
Short of cash, Washington National Cathedral picks a fundraiser for its new dean
The Rev. Randy Hollerith is good at raising money, something the cathedral desperately needs.
Pope Francis holds talks with Sunni Islam leader in breakthrough Vatican meeting
“The meeting is the message,” Francis said upon greeting the grand imam of Al-Azhar, a mosque and university complex in Cairo that is viewed as the heart of Sunni Islam.
Key Tunisian party renounces political Islam
The most successful Islamist party to emerge from the Arab Spring voted to take religion out of its politics and operate instead as “Muslim democrats.”
Donald Trump moves to win over wavering evangelical Christians
The presumptive Republican nominee likely can't win the White House without them.
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Brooklyn’s Catholic bishop decries ‘racism and xenophobia’
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio seems to take aim at Donald Trump and argues that deportations would hurt the U.S. economy.
United Methodist conference seen as confusing even to God
But many delegates are hopeful after 11 days of wrangling issues such as homosexuality, reproductive rights, not to mention church governance and finances.
African Methodists worry about the church that brought them Christianity
“People from the country that brought the Gospel to us are now preaching a different Gospel.”
Archbishop: Anti-Semitism is ‘embedded’ in British culture
Justin Welby’s remarks follow anti-Semitic statements by Labour Party members.
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Divided Methodists form special commission on church music (SATIRE)
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) The 12 million-member denomination postpones decision on human instrumentation.
Mayberry 2016
A new sitcom for the Tarheel State.
Gay Mormons, reparative therapy, and the safe spaces of conservative religion
Historian Benjamin E. Park says the new memoir “Saving Alex” -- which chronicles a gay teen Mormon’s nightmare of conversion therapy -- is “a reminder of the lengths people are willing to go to in denying the authenticity of homosexual voices.”
Happy 75th birthday, Bob Dylan!
Bob Dylan turns 75. Let's honor his contributions to Jewish culture.
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