[slingshot_ad name=”Slingshot Banner Ad”]
Emergency personnel respond to a fatal shooting at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. (KSAT via AP)
Need to know: Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Churches look to tighten security, even arm congregants, after Texas shooting
Across the country, many churches and other places of worship are considering new security measures as mass shootings have become a tragically familiar narrative in the U.S.
Atheists confronted possibility Texas shooter was one of their own
Often when a terrorist strikes in America, many Muslims say, “Please don’t let it be a Muslim.” After Sunday’s massacre at a Texas Baptist church on Sunday, it was atheists hoping the gunman wasn’t one of their own.
Billy Graham at 99: He kept the faith and (mostly) dropped the politics
As he celebrates his birthday today, in what his son described as "stable" health, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is kicking of a yearlong celebration of the preacher's past.
After Sutherland Springs, pray … and do something
It would be good to hear a word from our president now about how we can find the laws and practices that will counter the ways we have come to rely on the instruments of violence to provide our security, writes Richard Mouw.
Larry David should be ashamed
The comedian’s opening monologue on SNL was not only tasteless. It was not only unfunny. With the preponderance of anti-Semitism in this country, it is also dangerous, writes Jeffrey Salkin.
[slingshot_ad name=”Slingshot Middle Cube Ad”]
Latest news from RNS
Mass shooting at Texas church prompts strong words from religious leaders
(RNS) — As the nation reels from another mass shooting, religious leaders were quick to react to the latest tragedy.
Harriet Tubman’s Canadian church seeks help for repairs
(RNS) — The 11 members of Salem Chapel have started a crowdsourcing campaign to shore up the building, which sits just north of Niagara Falls.
Archaeologists say rebuilding Jonah’s mosque should wait
(RNS) — Now that ISIS has been driven from Mosul in Iraq, Muslim traditionalists say it is imperative to start reconstructing the Mosque of the Prophet Jonah, which had marked the site since the 12th century, along with the ruins of a seventh-century Christian church.
More views from RNS
When you attack a church, you attack God
(RNS) There was a 27th victim of the church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas. (COMMENTARY)
Trump’s neo-Puritan theology of us and them
Four centuries later, a neo-Puritan theology of us and them is how Donald Trump proposes to make America great again, Mark Silk writes.
Luther goes global
Some church figures—pastors, choir directors, tour leaders, etc.—confess that they are just about “all Luthered out” for a while. Yet, while it lasted, the Luther topic provided access to other subjects that are often overlooked in a secular-pluralist world wherein faith, and versions of faiths, have to compete for attention.
[slingshot_ad name=”Slingshot Bottom Cube Ad”]
