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Panelists Robert P. George, left, and Cornel West embrace after a discussion on the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on May 29, 2018. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks
Need to know: Thursday, May 31, 2018
Talking MLK, Robert George and Cornel West offer antidote to partisanship
West said he’s had to answer critics who can’t understand how he travels around the country with the conservative George: "I say, 'Have you met him? Have you sat down and talked with him?'"
Rabbinical court in Israel rejects ‘liberal’ American rabbis
Israel’s rabbinical court system no longer recognizes the authority of more than 120 rabbis ordained at a modern-Orthodox rabbinical school in New York, a recently discovered document has revealed.
Minister ‘Still Wrestling’ with his faith after murder of his wife and son
Les Ferguson Jr., a Church of Christ minister, knew his wife and son's killer: He had attended Ferguson’s church until being charged three months earlier with sexually assaulting the 21-year-old son.
A televangelist wants his followers to pay for a $54 million private jet. It’s his fourth plane.
Prosperity gospel televangelist Jesse Duplantis is the latest aircraft-seeking preacher to draw raised eyebrows and outright condemnation from critics who say asking for a multimillion-dollar luxury jet is not exactly what Jesus meant when he said “store up for yourself treasures in heaven.” (Subscription may be required.)
The Radical Preacher of Palo Alto
A pastor who resigned after tweeting scathing criticisms of liberals in Silicon Valley proved too leftist even for California.
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Employees quit American Bible Society over sex and marriage rules
The policies affect heterosexual cohabitants as well as gays and lesbians and shifts the organization toward a narrow evangelical identity.
Ex-polygamist details flight from the FLDS and his half brother, Warren Jeffs
(RNS) — Wallace Jeffs lost almost everything when he spoke out against polygamous FLDS leaders and his half brother, Warren Jeffs. Now remarried and baptized into the mainstream LDS church, Wallace opens up in a chilling new memoir.
Europe: Not as secular as you think
"Christian identity remains a meaningful marker in Western Europe," says a new Pew Research Center survey. Despite low attendance at church, 64 percent of adults in the region consider themselves Christian.
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Southern Baptists have more repenting to do
Cries for mercy from church leaders seemed to focus not on women's pain, writes Brian D. McLaren, but on the "humiliation' of the male-led denomination.
The book you need to read right now
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is that rare Jewish book: an utter tour de force.
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