Churches are finally making the moral case against sports betting

Vanderbilt Divinity School is under receivership. No one seems to know why.
Religion News Service: One of the nation’s most prestigious divinity schools has been placed in receivership, leading to speculation that the school might close or change drastically.

 

Immigrant who helped set off Delaney Hall hunger strike released from ICE custody
Religion News Service: “I don’t have words,” Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez said in Spanish while holding his wife and two children. “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in prayer.”

 

Churches are finally making the moral case against sports betting*
The Atlantic: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the most recent faith community to come out strongly against online gambling.

 

Jim Bakker, whose globe-spanning PTL ministry fell to scandal and fraud, dies at 86
NBC News: The televangelist served less than five years after being convicted of fraud in 1989.

 

The ‘God gap’ is narrowing in Texas*
The New York Times: Will Talarico’s religious faith help put him — and his party — over the top?