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Need to know: Thursday, March 23, 2017
Princeton Theological Seminary reverses decision to honor Redeemer’s Tim Keller
The seminary had faced mounting criticism over Keller’s conservative views on women and LGBTQ people. So he will not receive an award but will still deliver a major lecture.
Why Princeton’s snub of Tim Keller should outrage progressives
Jonathan Merritt wonders: As the cultural tides shift, will progressive Christians make space at the table for conservatives?
Trump to speak at Liberty University commencement
Trump “is again showing that he has not forgotten evangelicals since he’s been president,” said David Brody, breaking the news on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
American girl steals pope’s hat
Francis let out good-humored guffaws a split second later, when he realized what had happened.
Neil Gorsuch’s own faith is a poor predictor of how he would judge religious issues
In most instances, a justice’s religious faith has been a poor predictor of his or her judicial philosophy.
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Pakistan threatens to ‘punish’ Facebook, other firms over blasphemy
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) Pakistan's government wants social media networks to remove material deemed insulting to Islam or the Prophet Muhammad, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif last week warned that those posting such content would be 'strictly punished.'
Pope to visit war and famine hit South Sudan in October — bishop
ROME (Reuters) Pope Francis will visit South Sudan in October if the security situation in the country stricken by civil war and famine does not worsen, a bishop from the country said.
On World Water Day, African church leaders highlight shortages
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) On a continent where people spend long hours trekking and queuing for water that is not always clean, church groups are drilling wells to improve the livelihoods of women and children.
More views from RNS
The World Council of Churches vs. the Jewish state, once again
JERUSALEM (RNS) World Council of Churches officials should not be surprised that years of attacks targeting Israel have borne bitter fruit, writes political scientist Gerald Steinberg.
Divine patience in confused times
“I don’t identify with all of the causes of the Religious Right, and even when I agree I strongly dislike the warring spirit,” writes Richard Mouw in his new RNS column, “Civil Evangelicalism.”
At life’s end, a rare point of agreement
(RNS) I like thinking that there may be a Higher Justification for me trying to continue to accomplish some things that will be considered good when I’m gone.
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Bonus tracks
- Nativism, violence, and the origins of the paranoid style
- This West Virginia school district has weekly Bible classes. A kindergartner is suing.
- High art meets high-tech in Vatican 3D film about Raphael
- I’m a married Catholic priest who thinks priests shouldn’t get married
- Confessions of a porn-addicted priest
- Tomb of Christ at risk of ‘catastrophic’ collapse
