Friday's News & Ideas - 10/21/2022
- Religion helps youth mental health
- Judge blocks NY ban on guns in church
- Online school impact
- LA pastor stealing money
- Kirill questioned over war
- Internet prices between neighborhoods
Study: Religion and spirituality can aid youth mental health crisis
Religion News Service: Religion and spirituality could help remedy the youth mental health crisis, Springtide Research finds.
U.S. judge blocks New York from banning guns in church
Reuters: A federal judge on Thursday barred the state of New York, at least for now, from enforcing the part of a closely watched gun law that bans firearms from churches or other places of worship.
Online school put US kids behind. Some adults have regrets.
Associated Press: Some educators and parents are questioning decisions in cities from Boston to Chicago to Los Angeles to remain online long after clear evidence emerged that schools weren’t COVID-19 super-spreaders — and months after life-saving adult vaccines became widely available.
Louisiana pastor pleads guilty to stealing nearly $900,000 from church and school*
The New York Times: The Rev. Charles Southall III took money that parishioners had donated to the church and used it for himself, prosecutors say.
Russian patriarch questioned by World Council of Churches over position on war
Crux: According to the WCC, during the meeting the “serious concerns” of some WCC members and their request to have the Russian Orthodox Church expelled over Kirill’s statements on the Ukraine war were discussed.
The Spark
Dollars to megabits, you may be paying 400 times as much as your neighbor for internet service
An investigation by The Markup found that four providers disproportionately offered lower-income and least-White neighborhoods slow internet service for the same price as speedy connections they offered in other parts of town.
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