Day: November 1, 2017

West Virginia’s bishop asks churches to prepare for opioid overdoses

Cara Modisett | Posted on November 1, 2017 |

Churches in West Virginia, New York and Canada are among those that are starting to combat their communities’ opioid overdose epidemics with overdose-counteracting drugs.

Editorial: Where is God now

Jon White | Posted on November 1, 2017 |

Bishop Sutton of Maryland offers this reflection and call to action, marking one month since the mass-murder in Las Vegas

Remembered in Budapest: The Scottish teacher who died at Auschwitz

Cara Modisett | Posted on November 1, 2017 |

At 47 years old, a Scottish teacher died in the gas chamber of Auschwitz because she refused to leave her Jewish students in Hungary. She’s being remembered in a new exhibit in Budapest.

School of Life

Tricia Gates Brown | Posted on November 1, 2017 |

“We have to have more than textbooks. We need text-people” (Abraham Joshua Heschel). Both are necessary and nourishing. Both shape our beliefs and views of the world.

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