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Nov 16, 2024 | startribune.com | HOLLY MEYERThe |Holly Meyer

''There is a part of me — probably a not very attractive part of me — that likes to smash people's idols. Anyone I feel is being a bit too smug or too pretentious, I don't like to see that. I like to just take them apart a little bit.''Horror can be challenging. It acts as a dark mirror that can reveal things people don't want to admit and fears they don't want to face, said the Rev. Ryan Duns, a Jesuit priest and theology chair at Marquette University in Milwaukee.

Oct 10, 2024 | startribune.com | Mariam Fam |Giovanna Dell'Orto |HOLLY MEYERThe |Holly Meyer

WINTER PARK, Florida — Many Jews worldwide will mark Yom Kippur in fasting and prayer at their synagogues this weekend. But for the faithful in Florida, destructive Hurricane Milton has disrupted plans for observing the Day of Atonement — the holiest day of the year in the Jewish faith — that begins Friday evening and caps off the High Holy Days that began with Rosh Hashana on Oct. 2.

Sep 27, 2024 | startribune.com | David Crary |HOLLY MEYERThe |Holly Meyer

David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Jesuit-run Fordham University, said that in past elections, ''for a non-Catholic like Trump to be setting himself up as the savior of Catholics, or Jews for that matter, would have been political insanity.''''But it's Trump, and conservatives who would attack a Democrat for such language are cheering for the Republican nominee,'' Gibson added in an email.

Sep 20, 2024 | startribune.com | HOLLY MEYERThe |Holly Meyer

Florida pastor Melvin Adams knows a few hours of church programming every week is no match for the more than 30 hours children spend at secular schools, absorbing lessons that he says run counter to their family's Christian beliefs. Like other theologically conservative pastors in Florida and beyond, he decided his Nazarene church in the Orlando suburbs could do something about it.

Sep 20, 2024 | startribune.com | HOLLY MEYERThe |Holly Meyer

''The problem isn't churches starting schools. The problem is taxpayer funding for these schools, or any private schools,'' said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.