Voters go to the polls during early voting at the Hamilton County Board of Elections on Nov. 4, 2018, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Need to know: Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Faith groups mount election turnout efforts that could help both parties
This year’s heated midterm contests appear to have sparked unusually robust efforts by faith-based organizations to move the political needle.
A Washington state lawmaker’s notes on ‘biblical’ war threaten his re-election bid
A quiet race for a legislative seat was thrust into the spotlight after a leaked document written by incumbent Matt Shea emerged.
Anger erupts in Egypt after massacre of Christian pilgrims
An assault that killed seven Coptic Christians follows a 2017 ambush at the same location.
Why this shrinking religious group might be among America’s last ‘swing voters’
White mainline Protestants are the only religious group to have shifted on Trump.
Can megachurches save El Salvador?
In a country torn apart by gang violence — forcing many to flee to the United States — evangelicalism is offering gang members a way out.
Black millennials leave church for African witchcraft
A growing community of young black women are finding a sense of power in their ancestors’ African spiritual traditions.
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Freddie Mercury’s family faith: The ancient religion of Zoroastrianism
(The Conversation) — Many fans of the rock band Queen are only now learning, via the new movie "Bohemian Rhapsody," that Freddie Mercury, the band's leader, was born Farrokh Bulsara was a Zoroastrian by faith.
A week after Pittsburgh shooting, hundreds #ShowUpForShabbat
"I never thought I’d say this, but ‘thoughts and prayers’ feel great," said one local Jewish man at the first Shabbat service since the attack.
Death is a way of life as Mexico celebrates Day of the Dead
In Mexican families, the remembrance of loved ones is so frequent and natural that it can seem as if the deceased have never died.
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Trump’s nativism harks back to the antebellum slavery struggle
Shades of the Fugitive Slave Law.
He’s not a rabbi, and it’s not Judaism
What happened in Pittsburgh was anti-Semitic. What happened in Michigan was anti-Judaism.
The Pittsburgh massacre was about refugees
That fact should not be elided.
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