Sotheby’s auction house in Manhattan on 3 December 2013 auctioned one of eleven known surviving copies of the Bay Psalm Book for US$14.5 million. The book had been placed on auction by the Old South Church (United Church of Christ) in Boston, Massachusetts.

The purchaser, David Rubenstein, plans to lend the psalter to various libraries around the U.S., and eventually to place the book on long-term loan to one of the libraries.

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[2] Presbyterian Center Chapel Hosts Interfaith Celebration

The PresbyterianCenter (Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)) chapel in Louisville, Kentucky on 2 October 2013, purposely on the same day as Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, held an interfaith celebration to honor the world’s peacemakers.

Celebrants included Anne Walter from the First Nations tradition; Johny Alse, who represented the Hindu Temple of Kentucky; Geshe Kalsang Rapgyal, who represented the local Tibetan Buddhist center, Drepung Gomang Institute; Harem Mamasreh, a Palestinian Muslim graduate student from the University of Louisville; and Cantor David Lipp from Adath Jeshurun Synagogue.

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[3] Princeton Theological Seminary Lays Off Twenty-One Employees

Princeton Theological Seminary laid off twenty-one employees the week of 18 November 2013. The seminary attributed the layoffs to carrying out the goals of the school’s strategic plan developed in 2012.

Sources at the school said most of the layoffs were in the areas of information technology, library staff, and continuing education. Some of the employees who lost their jobs were reportedly escorted off campus after being told their positions no longer existed.

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[4] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

— Family of Daughter Requiring Eighty-Six Brain Tumor Surgeries Loses Insurance under Obamacare

— Charity Paying for Free Abortions Targets Teen Girls

— U.K. Activist Likes Assisted Suicide So She Won’t Have to Care for Her Aging Parents

— Two-Thirds of Abortions in the United States are Done on Minority Babies

— U.K. Man Not Going to Prison for Trying to Trick Pregnant Girlfriend into Taking Abortion Drug

— Mother Escapes Abortion by Jumping Out London, EnglandAbortion Facility Window

— Unfortunately, Nelson Mandela Signed Law Legalizing Unlimited Abortions

— Oklahoma Pastors to Protest “Disgusting” Play That Puts Homosexual and Bestiality Twist on Bible

— Pennsylvania Authorities Shut Down New Abortion Clinic Opened Secretly by Unlicensed Abortionist

— U.S. Federal Government Considering Letting Homosexual Men Donate Blood

— One Abortion for Every Two Births in Bulgaria

— Northern Ireland May Okay Abortions on Disabled Babies, Those Conceived in Rape

— Kenyan Government Prepares to Launch War on Women

— New Zealand Mom Who Would Have Aborted Daughter Born With Spina Bifida Wins Court Decision over Misdiagnosis

— U.K. Doctors Still Practicing after Child Porn Convictions

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[5] Headlines from Christian Concern

Headlines of the past week from Christian Concern:

— Cohabiting Parents Four Times More Likely to Split than Married Parents

— Croatians Back Referendum Upholding Traditional Marriage

— U.K. Court of Appeal Recognises Sunday as Christian Rest Day

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[6] Headlines from The Christian Institute

Headlines of the past week from The Christian Institute:

— Downing Street ‘Set for First Gay Wedding’

— School Gives Go Ahead to Treat Six-Year-Old Girl as a Boy

— High Court Judge to Step Down over Lack of ‘Support’ on Traditional Marriage Views

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[7] Articles from LifesiteNews.com

Articles from the past week from LifesiteNews.com:

— The Straight Line from Marriage Equality to Divorce Equality

— Homosexual Youths 148 Percent More Likely to Be Physically Abused in Relationships: U.S. Department of Justice-Funded Report

— Alberta to Spend More Than CA$4 Million A Year to Give HPV Vaccinations to Boys

— WorldPride 2014: Toronto Taxpayers to Double Funding for ‘State-Backed Celebration of Kinky Sex’

— 200,000 March for Marriage in Taiwan Protesting Proposed Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Law

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[8] The Thinning Blue Line

— Innocent Man Sues after Murfreesboro, Tennessee Cops Beat Him and Pepper-Spray the Wounds

— NYPD Killed Staten Island Woman’s Parakeet Beat Her Family, Invaded Home without Warrant

— University of the Incarnate Word Student Shot Dead by College Cop for Speeding