Marketing experts say retailers typically seek early holiday promotions to prevent unsold inventory or to beat their competitors to the punch. They say the early launches are also a sign that consumer demands are changing, especially since COVID. (Kim, NPR)
Read MoreAn engineer from the University of Padua in Italy used modern technology to reanalyze samples taken from the cloth in the 1970s, finding tiny blood particles showing signs of organ failure, trauma, disease and radiation. Materials that were typical in ancient Jerusalem were also said to be discovered. (Liberatore, Daily Mail)
Read MoreThe survey is intended to help the U.S. bishops and other Catholic leaders to implement the National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministry, a program approved by the USCCB last year that aims to strengthen ministry in Latino communities. Hertzler-McCain, Religion News Service)
Read MoreThe church announced that Pastor Kemntal Glasgow is no longer a member over a 'moral issue' that 'disqualifies him from serving.' The upheaval began in June with the resignation of Robert Morris. (Limehouse, USA Today)
Read MoreThe talk had been planned a month ago; tickets had been sold and many people eventually showed up, but now there was a big problem. The staff at Powerhouse, an arty but not aggressively political bookstore on the waterfront in Dumbo, where the discussion was being held, was objecting on the grounds that Rabbi Bachman was “a Zionist.” (Bellafante, The New York Times)
Read MoreOklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said when he announced the directive that “immediate and strict compliance is expected” for the 2024-25 school year. But as schools open around Oklahoma this month, there’s little evidence that the Bible’s presence is any changed from last year, or the year before. No Bibles appear to have been purchased, and no curriculum changes have been announced. (Graham, The New York Times)
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