Faith leaders, politicians invoke God’s protection for Trump in wake of shooting
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Faith leaders, politicians invoke God’s protection for Trump in wake of shooting

Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — Reactions from faith leaders and fellow politicians to Donald Trump’s narrow escape from an apparent assassin’s bullet called upon God’s protection for the former president and for the nation.“May God protect all who serve us,” wrote Albert Mohlerthe president of Southern Baptist Seminary on X, after news broke Saturday evening (July 13) that shots had been fired at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, shortly after the candidate took the stage. “Thankful former President Trump is safe. We need to know what happened here. This kind of attack is an attack upon our entire political system and our commitment to ordered liberty. Let’s pray for our nation.”Mohler’s sentiments about the dangers of political violence were echoed across the religious spectrum in the United States. “There can be no place for...
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Faith and LGBT Politics with R. G. Cravens
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Faith and LGBT Politics with R. G. Cravens

Politics tamfitronics While some traditions and congregations would possibly presumably presumably maybe be more inclusive than others, LGBTQ+ people dangle repeatedly had a presence in faith communities. When faith communities are declaring of LGBTQ+ people, it creates opportunities for more welcoming spaces, challenges forces of division, and fosters a society that embraces pluralism and intersectionality. This affirmation and inclusion also expands non secular freedom for all by promoting gentle coexistence and not easy the exclusionary and discriminatory white Christian nationalist agenda.This week on The Impart of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio show and podcast, Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is joined by Dr. Royal G. Cravens III to search out the historical past of LGBTQ+ inclusion internal faith communities. They discuss how faith and LGBTQ+ communities can empower every other to have interaction in clear...
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God edition: Faith, trouble and the economic system

Politics tamfitronics Margaret Atwood position a rule for herself when she became writing The Handmaid’s Myth in 1984.“I'd no longer include one thing else that human beings had no longer already accomplished in some different location or time, or for which the technology did no longer exist already,” she wrote in a 2018 article relating to the muse chronicle of her most haunting contemporary.The total atrocities depicted in The Handmaid’s Myth — the public executions, the compelled childbearing, the indentured servitude — had precedents. “ a bunch of these were to be learned, no longer in numerous cultures...
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