Friday's News & Ideas - 10/14/2022
- Pastors, is your well dry?
- Fake history and Dobbs decision
- Asylum seekers suffer from depression
- Young people want community
- Does God seek coherance?
- What does the white owner of Preservation Hall owe Black musicians?
Pandemic pastors and what remains
Mockingbird: After a few years of devastating blows or tiny, constant cuts, what remains at the bottom of your well?
Supreme deceit: How Sam Alito snuck medieval state Christianity into the Dobbs opinion
Salon: Alito's opinion overturning Roe is literally built on fake history — and a sneak attack on the First Amendment, writes David Boyle.
Immigration advocate surveys asylum-seekers to measure anxiety and depression
Baptist News Global: The overall indications are that 22% of asylum seekers are experiencing severe to extreme levels of depression.
Baptist News Global: New Baylor study finds pastors not as well trained in trauma care as they need to be
Gen Z and Millennials are seeking authentic church community, not leaving it
Church Leaders: There is still a desire and hunger for religious thought and exploration, but religious figures must exude authenticity for young people to give any credence to their teachings.
Crux: Youth want community, safe spaces in church, council members tell pope
An unfettered life*
Christian Century: Like many bicultural kids, I grew up wishing for a world spacious enough to accommodate all of me: the American me, the Indian me, the conflicted me. Nowadays, I wonder if God wants coherence, too, writes Debi Thomas.
The Spark
He inherited a New Orleans jazz institution. What does he owe?*
In the 1960s, Ben Jaffe’s family founded Preservation Hall to help keep a defining Black art form alive. In 2022, that’s a complicated part for a white musician to play, the New York Times says.
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