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“This religious relic compels us to grapple with a timeless question: In our interpretations of the Bible, is the end result domination or liberation?” The so-called Slave Bible is on special view until April; it excludes texts about freedom and exodus.
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“Saying yes to caring for those families is what led us to a culture of caring for the vulnerable that runs throughout our church family.” Oklahoma's houses of worship are helping solve the state's foster care crisis.
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Accusations of Anti-Semitism have come up after announced last week that it has pulled all 200 listings from “Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank."
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"To indigenous peoples, it is no surprise that Christians believe they have the sacred right to go into places inhabited by indigenous peoples like the North Sentinel Islanders," writes .
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Today , we ran op-eds from a Baptist seminary prof and a Potawatomi Christian writer on the ethics of missions to "unreached people," followed up on a man deported from a NC church, wrote about the Slave Bible, and religious responses to foster care. All this and more
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Since 2012, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services and its contract partners have recruited 4,200 new foster families — the highest in the nation, according to — and houses of worship across the state are being praised for their impact.
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Bobby Ross Jr. 19h
Houses of worship helping solve foster care crisis in Oklahoma. My story
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Bobby Ross Jr. 18h
If each church in America supported one foster or adoptive family, the crisis of children without homes would disappear, notes in my story from Edmond, Okla.
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Kaitlin Curtice 18h
My take on the Chau story— love and colonization are not one and the same.
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In the wake of the death of John Chau on the island of North Sentinel, Scott Hildreth offers advice to his students "who want to see the lost reached with the gospel".
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The Museum of the Bible will have the so-called Slave Bible on special view until April. It excludes, among others, the story about the rescue of the Israelites from slavery and all of the Psalms, which express hopes for God’s delivery from oppression.
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Adelle Banks 20h
The Slave Bible exhibit at features a rare version of the holy book that excludes texts about exodus and freedom and retains ones about obeying masters. My story and video:
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Last week, , the online lodging app, announced that it had pulled all 200 listings from “Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank,” which it said is “at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.”
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The fraud case against the former owners of Newsweek magazine and the former publisher of the online publication The Christian Post has expanded. It now includes a fledgling university connected to a controversial Korean evangelical Christian pastor.
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Professors of religion often are asked to comment on current trends & social events as part of their work. But doing so can lead to risks, including death threats, rape threats and threats to their jobs.
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