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U.S. President Donald Trump, left, is greeted by Pastor Robert Jeffress at the Celebrate Freedom Rally July 1, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Photo by Yuri Gripas/REUTERS
Need to know: Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Texas pastor: ‘God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong-Un’
The Rev. Robert Jeffress, one of the key conservative evangelicals the president has been meeting with recently, said Romans 13 “gives the government the authority to do whatever, whether it’s assassination, capital punishment or evil punishment to quell the actions of evildoers like Kim Jong Un.”
Saint day draws massive rally over poverty in Buenos Aires
Hundreds of thousands of people marched during this year’s San Cayetano Day and demanded President Mauricio Macri declare a food emergency and increase government assistance for the poor.
Top Mormon leader is excommunicated; how much do we deserve to know about why?
A member of the Mormon “First Quorum of Seventy” has been quietly removed from the LDS church’s mid-level leadership council for the first time in decades. RNS columnist Jana Reiss wonders if the excommunication should have been done publicly.
The United States of climate change: God, climate and word choice
An interfaith collective is making congregations around Indiana more green – without saying the words climate change or global warming.
Welsh pub renames beer after seminarian mix-up
Mistaking a group of seminarians celebrating an ordination for a bachelor party, a pub in Wales threw them out, but then apologized by naming a beer after them: “Thirsty Priests.”
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Clergy preach peace during Kenyan national elections
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Thousands had camped in churches to pray for a peaceful election. Pastors and priests had stressed in sermons that it was the people's right to vote, and urged them to choose leaders who would please God.
Christian author Jen Hatmaker on the ‘moxie’ it takes to get your books banned
Today is the release date for her new book: “Of Mess and Moxie,” in which she writes about authoring blacklisted books and other challenges of life as a “professional Christian.”
Is this unearthed fishing village the birthplace of three of Jesus’ apostles?
Archaeologists excavating in northern Israel believe they may have discovered the biblical city of Bethsaida, the hometown of three of Jesus’ apostles on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
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How Buddhist mindfulness can awaken the church
(RNS) Many Christians are finding mindfulness practice to be not just compatible but complimentary to their faith. They discover within these Buddhist-derived practices not only a key to renewal and holy living, but also a doorway to a neglected Christian tradition.
Stephen Miller shows that synagogues must teach Jewish values
(RNS) — How did American Judaism 'produce' Stephen Miller?
We knew what we were doing: Gushee on Trump, 2015-2016
“The warning signs about Donald Trump were everywhere, and we elected him president anyway,” David Gushee writes.
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