At no point did I see a Niebuhrian “just war.” The entire enterprise was a moral disgrace.
"Tonight has been beyond horrific," Jason Aldean, a headliner of the three-day concert, said in a statement on Instagram. "It hurts my heart that this would happen to anyone who was just coming out to enjoy what should have been a fun night."
Heeding the call of Matthew 25, a diverse group of religious leaders this week united to preserve the Affordable Care Act to protect the most vulnerable among us.
“We request upon you to join with many other political and religious leaders to proclaim with one voice that the ‘alt-right’ is racist, evil, and antithetical to a well-ordered, peaceful society,” reads the letter first published by CNN.
The signers — including Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines, former SBC President Fred Luter, and prominent African-American evangelical leaders T.D. Jakes and Tony Evans — reproach Trump for failing to speak out against the so-called alt-right.
“This movement has escaped your disapproval,” the letter reads.
Without naming names, it further states: “It concerned many of us when three people associated with the alt-right movement were given jobs in the White House.”
We thank you for thousands of sisters and brothers
Who seek education, who love this good land.
For they are a blessing to us and to others;
May we reach to offer a welcoming hand.
The refugees drowned in heavy seas off Bangladesh late on Thursday, part of a new surge of people fleeing a Myanmar military campaign that began on Aug. 25 and has triggered an exodus of some 502,000 people.
3. Bullet Holes and Rosé: Exploiting Black Pain for Profit
How one new Crown Heights “boozy sandwich shop” exemplifies the ongoing pain of gentrification: “In the case of Summerhill, not only do residents view the new bar as a sign of a rapidly changing neighborhood; many also view it as a commodification of black stereotypes rooted in a layered and painful history that has long plagued the country.”
4. When Police Officers Don’t Know About the ADA
The recent police shooting death of Magdiel Sanchez, a deaf man who often communicated with a metal pipe, highlights the increasing problem of police interactions — and miscommunication — with the deaf community.
The carpet has been pulled up from the floor of Burnette Chapel Church of Christ.
Five of its congregants, including the minister, remain hospitalized for gunshot wounds.
Those who aren’t hospitalized will attend a funeral Sept. 28 for Melanie Crow, who was killed as she walked out of church Sunday.
Now the Church of England’s trainee clergy are being offered help to understand Cranmer’s more obscure prose through a publication of a glossary. All first-year ordinands – the trainee priests studying at theological colleges – are to be given a copy of the guide together with a free copy of the Book of Common Prayer, an English-language product of the 16th-century break between England and the Roman Catholic Church, where Latin ruled.
