NEW YORK (RNS) Religion News Service’s new podcast, “Saved by the City,” hosted by RNS Managing Editor Roxanne Stone and journalist Katelyn Beaty, chronicles the complicated lives of two single Christian women pursuing their faith and their dreams in New York City.
Both Roxy and Katelyn grew up in the white evangelical American heartland. Both were warned moving to a supposed bastion of secular culture would be dangerous to their faith. While navigating a city where people sleep in on Sunday mornings and the chaste motto “true love waits” isn’t a thing, the two have found a renewed, vibrant faith that has been both strengthened and stretched in the metropolis.
Librarians are debating how to handle the Dr Seuss controversy - but the books will stay on shelves for now msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Librarians said they re discussing what to do about six discontinued Dr. Seuss books.
They ll stay on the shelves for now, said the New York Public Library and other US institutions.
Sales of Dr. Seuss books soared after figures like Ted Cruz railed against cancel culture.
Bookstores will soon be without six Dr. Seuss titles found to be offensive, but library borrowers will still be able to find them on their shelves.
Last Tuesday, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, which oversees the author s estate, said it would cease publication of six books found to have racially insensitive imagery.
For libraries, the removal of offensive books is a complex issue. Leaving books on the shelves may lead to backlash, but pulling them could be seen as a form of censorship.
Karen Swallow Prior and Joseph Hammond join RNS
Religion News Service (RNS) is pleased to announce Karen Swallow Prior has joined the publication as a columnist covering faith and culture. Her inaugural column, “Still Baptist. Still evangelical,” focuses on the persistence of her faith through difficult days. RNS also welcomes Joseph Hammond as its newest reporter primarily covering Islam. His first two stories reported on the NFL’s first Muslim head coach and Muslim actors making Golden Globe history.
Prior is a research professor of English and Christianity and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the author of numerous books, including