Politics

By Marcus Peter, Catholic World Report - Unlike Judaism and Christianity, Islam lacks a developed hereditary tradition capable of sustained moral and theological development across centuries. There exists no magisterium, no binding interpretive authority, and no organic doctrinal development comparable to rabbinic Judaism or the Christian tradition. In Judaism, centuries of rabbinic debate formed a vast oral law ... In Christianity, ecclesial authority preserved doctrinal continuity ... Islam, by contrast, resists such development by its own theological necessity, since the Qur’an is considered the eternal and uncreated word of God, thereby rendering reinterpretation as infidelity.

By Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal - A key staffer for Minneapolis’ left-leaning district attorney praised the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators who invaded a church service Sunday, and suggested he was present at the incident... Jamael Lundy, the intergovernmental affairs coordinator for the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, posted on Facebook that he “met up with a group of protesters and got in some good trouble highlighting that a church in the Twin Cities has a pastor that is a ICE field director.”...