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Need to know: Friday, November 18, 2016
Trump is said to offer national security post to Michael Flynn, retired general
The retired intelligence officer believes Islamist militancy poses an existential threat and has said Shariah, or Islamic law, is spreading in the United States (it is not).
Is the pope Catholic? Francis dismisses critics of his teachings
He fired back at foes of his efforts to make the Catholic Church more open and pastoral in its ministry, telling an interviewer that his opponents have a legalistic mindset about Christianity that only sees the faith in “black or white.”
German Protestants officially renounce converting Jews to Christianity
That Christians see Jesus as their savior and Jews don’t is “a fact we leave up to God,” reads the resolution adopted by the Evangelical Church in Germany.
Rubio, Kaine aim to curb rising anti-Semitism in Europe
The two senators are promoting a bill that calls for the State Department to share more widely any new information on how the U.S. and Europe are addressing the needs of the continent's Jewish community.
Literal interpretation of Bible ‘helps increase church attendance’
Churches that are theologically conservative with beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible grow faster than those with a liberal orientation, according to a five-year academic study.
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Pope Francis, the ultimate headhunter
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Many of the 17 churchmen the pontiff will honor with a red hat on Saturday were as stunned as everyone else that they were chosen. That’s because Francis is his own executive search firm.
Centuries-old Ten Commandments tablet auctioned off for $850,000
The seller stipulated that the buyer of the 1,500-year-old tablet must put it on public display.
New film focuses on African-American women in Jonestown deaths
The majority of those who died 38 years ago this week at Jonestown, Guyana, were African-American women and children.
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Post-election whiplash: 10 observations
(RNS) Ten observations about what just happened in our country and what it means for Christians and others.
For families divided by Mormonism, 5 things to do – and not to do
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Mormon families want to defuse tensions that arise when some leave the LDS Church and others stay. Guest blogger Mette Harrison says to pass the yams and hold the judgment.
Trump’s alt-right-Jewish alliance
Chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon is putting it together.
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Bonus tracks
- How the 2016 election reminded me of growing up in a cult
- I am a heartland Muslim and I don’t think all Trump supporters are racist
- Trump supporters think my life is worth less than theirs
- In Twin Falls, Idaho, co-dependency of whites and immigrants faces a test
- Ruth Gruber, who accompanied 1,000 Jews to the shores of the United States during the Holocaust, dies at 105
