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Need to know: Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Most churchgoers are hearing politics from the pulpit: report
Black Protestant Christians were mostly likely to hear about the candidates while at church, according to the survey by the Pew Research Center.
Fewer and fewer Americans vote with religion in mind
While millions of people across the United States have left their faith traditions behind, our political displays still seem stuck in time, writes Katherine Ozment.
Christians, Jews would be included in Trump’s territorial terrorism ban
GOP VP nominee Mike Pence said Trump’s new “expanded” ban would include not just Muslims from countries with a history of terrorism.
Muslim American fencer to Donald Trump: ‘I don’t have another home’
“My family was born here. I was born here. I’ve grown up in Jersey. It’s like, well, where do we go?” said Ibtihaj Muhammad, who is also the first American Muslim woman to compete in the Olympics while wearing a hijab.
40 years on, a controversial film on Islam’s origins is now a classic
‘The Message’ was difficult to make and faced a backlash in part of the Muslim world. It is currently being restored for a high definition rerelease.
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Tobin Heath sees soccer as a platform for faith
(RNS) The Team USA midfielder relies on God through wins and losses.
Ibtihaj Muhammad: First US Olympian to compete in hijab
The fencer, who begins Olympic competition today, has never shied away from speaking up for the black and Muslim American communities.
Top Catholic bishops criticize Biden for officiating at gay marriage
The three officials were circumspect in their critique and did not mention the vice president by name. Two factors may explain their relative reticence.
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The Mormon moment and others
The purpose of this exercise in time-measurement terminology is ... to suggest that people may profitably invest in some of those in their own era, age, and moment, and gain perspective for what is before them.
How to say no to racism and yes to God on your mission trip
Mission trips can be life-changing experiences, but it’s not acceptable for white learning and spiritual development to flourish at the expense of people of color.
Why Clinton is beating Trump in Georgia
It has to do with white evangelicals.
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Bonus tracks
- Church leaders confront Duterte over extrajudicial killings in Philippines
- On abortion, Tim Kaine is a bridge to Hillary Clinton’s past
- Throwing Israel off the bus
- A black inventor takes on musical notation’s racial history
- On Galileo, the Inquisition followed sound science
- The power and poetry of Italian church confessionals
