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Emergency personnel respond to a fatal shooting at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. (KSAT via AP)
Need to know: Monday, November 6, 2017
Texas town revolves around church where shooting occurred
A man opened fire inside a church in a small South Texas town on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding about 20.
Trump’s neo-Puritan theology of us and them
Four centuries later, a neo-Puritan theology of us and them is how Donald Trump proposes to make America great again, Mark Silk writes.
‘I could not forget what happened to me that night with him’
Henda Ayari created a storm when she denounced radical Islam. Now, she is accusing an Oxford professor of rape. (Subscription may be required.)
Why I was banned from the campus of Liberty University
Liberty University’s president encourages his students to carry guns, but fears public prayer from Christians who openly embrace nonviolence, says author and pastor Jonathan Martin, who was escorted off the campus last week.
Why we banned Jonathan Martin from Liberty University
Jerry Falwell asks: What if someone you had never met announced on social media that they were going to come into your living room, invite others, and have a “prayer meeting” after stating publicly that your home is the most hostile environment to the gospel in the U.S.?
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26 killed in church attack in Texas’ deadliest mass shooting
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Reports say the gunman walked into First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs and began firing, killing some of his victims, and that the shooter has been taken down.
Harriet Tubman’s Canadian church seeks help for repairs
(RNS) — The 11 members of Salem Chapel have started a crowdsourcing campaign to shore up the building, which sits just north of Niagara Falls.
Archaeologists say rebuilding Jonah’s mosque should wait
(RNS) — Now that ISIS has been driven from Mosul in Iraq, Muslim traditionalists say it is imperative to start reconstructing the Mosque of the Prophet Jonah, which had marked the site since the 12th century, along with the ruins of a seventh-century Christian church.
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Larry David should be ashamed
The comedian’s opening monologue on SNL was not only tasteless. It was not only unfunny. With the preponderance of anti-Semitism in this country, it is also dangerous, writes Jeffrey Salkin.
#SeinfeldTaughtMe — about Judaism
Can "Seinfeld" serve as an introduction to Jewish culture?
Faith leaders must stop acting as if there’s no preventing natural disasters
(RNS) — As faith leaders, we believe it’s time we stopped pretending and summoned our great generosity of spirit and incalculable ingenuity to address the ongoing disaster that is causing all our other disasters: climate change.
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