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Need to know: Thursday, April 6, 2017
Trey Pearson releases first music video since coming out as a gay Christian rock star
In it, a young gay man sings during a church service, then shares a kiss with his partner to applause from the congregation
Jewish leaders cheer ouster of Steve Bannon from NSC post
Bannon is the former head of Breitbart News and he has boasted that he made the news and commentary website into a platform for the anti-Semitic so-called alt-right movement. He had been on Trump’s National Security Council.
Nation’s largest Jewish denomination encourages congregations to protect undocumented immigrants
Reform leaders say Jewish teaching compels followers to treat “strangers in our midst with justice and compassion.”
Muslim births projected to outnumber Christian births globally by 2035
Christianity, nevertheless, will remain the world’s largest religious group, a new Pew Research Center study shows.
The spiritual agony behind America’s opioid crisis
Imagine, for a moment, that addiction is a response to spiritual agony, writes Damon Linker. Then consider the role of substance abuse in our lives.
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After Syrian gas attack, Pope Francis calls on world leaders: ‘End this tragedy’
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The deadly attack occurred as 70 donor countries were meeting in Brussels at a conference hosted by the European Union to support Syria as the conflict enters its seventh year.
Mormon leader Thomas Monson, 89, hospitalized
The man considered a prophet by the world’s 16 million Mormons fell ill after looking gaunt at the church’s General Conference last weekend.
Chicago Cardinal Cupich unveils church-led anti-violence initiative
CHICAGO (RNS) Plans to aid the violence-plagued city will be underscored by a Good Friday procession using the traditional stations of Jesus' way to the cross to commemorate those who have been murdered.
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Niebuhr and the situation
The most promising response would be for those inspired by the film, as well as by old and new books by and about Niebuhr, not to ask “Who are the new Niebuhrs?” or “Why are there no new Niebuhrs?” We should be concerned less with who he was than with what he did.
Why I’ll forgo the big-time funeral and donate my remains to science
(RNS) My decision is a bit in keeping with Jewish traditional teachings about what to do with bodies. And some not in such keeping. Which, given my basic attitude as a Jewish agnostic, probably is consistent.
How Robert Bellah helped Martin Luther King oppose the Vietnam War
In saying plainly that the country was wrong to be in Vietnam, King may have been out in front of mainstream opinion but he was not all by himself.
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