The Slingshot: Tim Keller redux; Trumps’ high court; Judaism’s legacy

March 30, 2017
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Need to know: Thursday, March 30, 2017

Is Trump’s Supreme Court nominee an abortion foe’s dream – or nightmare?

Neil Gorsuch was expected to fulfill the president’s promise to name a justice who would overturn Roe v. Wade. But after Gorsuch’s Senate testimony, some abortion foes are worried..

Muslim mayor stresses diversity after London attack, but Britons still uneasy

“Islamophobia is our last blind spot,” said another Muslim pathbreaker, Sayeeda Warsi, who was Britain’s first Muslim Cabinet minister.

At US Capitol, Christians protest budget cuts

Wearing sackcloth and ashes, the group pitched a wooden cross on the grass and prayed for the nation’s vulnerable.

I’m an egalitarian female preacher who believes Tim Keller has been treated terribly

“I may not agree with Tim Keller’s theological understanding of women in leadership but that does not stop him being a world class theologian or a powerful evangelist and pastor,” writes Ruth Jackson.

More thoughts on Tim Keller

One of the pastor’s toughest critics, Carol Howard Merritt, responds to critics of her own position.

How Martin Luther helped invent individual freedom

The ideas set out by Martin Luther sparked a reformation in the idea of authority itself, writes Frank Furedi.

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Why does global Mormonism look like Utah Mormonism?

Can Mormonism move beyond its white, middle-class American base to become a truly global religion? Today Gina Colvin explains why the model of replicating Utah culture is damaging the LDS Church around the world.

Pope backs nuclear weapons ban treaty

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The pontiff spoke as talks on a proposed global nuclear arms ban at the United Nations seem doomed to fail with the U.S., France, Britain and South Korea among nearly 40 countries boycotting the talks.

Religiously affiliated hospital pensions at the center of Supreme Court case

A sleeper of a case before the Supreme Court pits three hospitals against employees who object to the institutions’ religious exemption from the law that protects pensions.

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‘Greenleaf’ portrayal of black church sexuality all too familiar

(RNS) Why is the African-American church seemingly so challenged when it comes to dealing with the diversity of human sexuality and gender identity in our congregations?

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on clearing scriptural minefields and building interfaith friendships

“There are hard texts in each tradition which we must confront and ask ourselves, ‘Can we reinterpret those texts to allow us to live peaceably and respectfully with people of other faiths?’"

Cardinal William Keeler was a bridge-builder. He was also my friend

(RNS) Facts, of course, are necessary in any obituary, but facts alone cannot capture the essence of the man who was an extraordinary global leader in building human bridges of mutual respect and understanding between Roman Catholics and Jews.

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