The 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years

The list was the first of its kind in the UK, and not uncontroversial (some critics declared it “anti-literary” or even “unEnglish”) but no one could have guessed just how important it would go on to be. Today, becoming a Sunday Times bestseller is the ultimate benchmark of commercial success for authors and publishers alike. (Segal, Ditum & Hackett, The Sunday Times)

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How a Persecuted Religious Group Grew Into a Global Movement

The posters are instantly recognizable, a fixture on storefronts around the world whenever the Shen Yun Performing Arts show comes to town. The show is one of the most visible parts of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, whose three-decade history includes a brutal crackdown in China, claims that its members’ organs were harvested and a transnational repression campaign that continues to this day. (Hong, Rothfeld & May, The New York Times)

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Faith leaders meet at White House for climate goals

“The main thrust of the whole meeting was to help us religious leaders understand the initiatives well enough to go back to our various communities and share how they can get on board,” explained the Rev. Betty Holley, a presiding elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Ohio Conference and professor of environmental ethics at Payne Theological Seminary. (Fodor, Religion News Service)

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