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2 months ago | 
biorxiv.org | Xin Xu |Jonathan Merritt |Steven Gray |Jeffrey L. Neul
AbstractApproximately 60% of individuals with Rett syndrome (RTT) carry a nonsense variant in the MECP2 gene; thus, there is an unmet need to identify novel nonsense suppression compound(s) that can restore full length MeCP2 protein levels and function. Here, we characterized neuronal phenotypes in cultured cortical neurons from newborn knock-in mice harboring the MECP2 R255X variant.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Jonathan Merritt |Rizki Fauzi
(RNS) — This month, Yale University Press released “The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story,” a highly anticipated book coauthored by preeminent New Testament scholar Richard Hays and his son, Christopher, himself a respected Old Testament scholar, in which they seek to make a biblical case for same-sex relationships and marriage.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Jonathan Merritt |Bethany Cseh |Jon Turney
Nat, Bethany, and Jon chat with Jonathan Merritt about his latest book My Guncle And Me.
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May 14, 2024 | 
relevantmagazine.com | Jonathan Merritt
I’ll never forget the day the emptiness came. Our church services had just concluded, and volunteers were beginning to clean. I sat alone in the worship center, hands trembling. That place within my soul once filled with passion for God was now a foreclosed home with only traces of the family that once lived therein. The God who once seemed to breathe upon my neck was now a ghost in the distance, blurry and noiseless.
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May 8, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Jonathan Merritt |Xiaolan Fang |Raymond C. Caylor |Steven Skinner
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
beforeitsnews.com | Jonathan Merritt
The book made Hays a darling among conservative evangelical Christians who opposed LGBTQ acceptance in their churches and the broader culture and frequently cited Hays’ work in debates. But the 75-year-old Hayes, since retired, now admits that his moral vision wasn’t exactly 20/20 when it came to this issue in 1996, and he’s ready to set the record straight.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Jonathan Merritt
Nearly 30 years ago, a revered New Testament professor at Duke Divinity School named Richard B. Hays published The Moral Vision of the New Testament, a sweeping 508-page meditation of Christian ethics in which Hays concluded that the Christian Bible condemns homosexual acts. Hays called homosexuality "one among many tragic signs that we are a broken people" and said that churches should not sanction or bless homosexual unions.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Jonathan Merritt |Rizki Fauzi
(RNS) — Nearly 30 years ago, a revered New Testament professor at Duke Divinity School named Richard B. Hays published “The Moral Vision of the New Testament,” a sweeping 508-page meditation of Christian ethics in which Hays concluded that the Christian Bible condemns homosexual acts. Hays called homosexuality “one among many tragic signs that we are a broken people” and said that churches should not sanction or bless homosexual unions.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
virtueonline.org | Jonathan Merritt
Conservative Christians just lost their scholarly trump card on same-sex relationshipsTheologian Richard Hays' reversal comes at a bad time for those who oppose accepting LGBTQ Christians. Richard B. Hays, left, and Christopher B. Hays, right. (Photos courtesy Duke, left, and Fuller, right)By Jonathan MerrittApril 8, 2024(RNS) -- Nearly 30 years ago, a revered New Testament professor at Duke Divinity School named Richard B.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
preprints.org | Jonathan Merritt |Xiaolan Fang |Raymond C. Caylor |Steven Skinner
Preprint Article Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed Version 1 : Received: 29 March 2024 / Approved: 29 March 2024 / Online: 29 March 2024 (10:27:34 CET) Merritt, J.K.; Fang, X.; Caylor, R.C.; Skinner, S.A.; Friez, M.J.; Percy, A.K.; Neul, J.L. Normalized Clinical Severity Scores Reveal a Correlation between X Chromosome Inactivation and Disease Severity in Rett Syndrome. Preprints 2024, 2024031844.
