Friday's News & Ideas - 10/25/2019
- Catholic protestors convicted
- PTS reparations not enough
- Mbiti dies
- Remembering Tree of Life
- Prior leaves Liberty
- Slowly moving forward
Jury convicts 7 Catholic pacifists of breaking into nuclear submarine base
Religion News Service: A federal jury convicted seven Catholic peace activists of three felonies and a misdemeanor for breaking into a nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia, last year. They now face up to 25 years in prison each.
$27M for slavery reparations ‘not enough,’ Princeton seminary students say. They want $120M more.
NJ.com: Princeton Theological’s own research concluded about 15% of the school’s current endowment is tied to profits made from investments and donors tied to slavery. “Fifteen percent of the endowment is $147 million,” the student group said.
John Mbiti, 87, dies; punctured myths about African religions*
New York Times: A theologian and an Anglican priest, Mbiti argued that traditional African religions deserved the same respect as Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism.
Will anyone remember 11 dead Jews?*
The Atlantic: Eric Lidji is on a one-man mission to keep the Tree of Life massacre from becoming just another entry on a long list of mass shootings and anti-Semitic attacks.
Longtime Liberty prof Karen Swallow Prior leaving for Southeastern
Christianity Today: The author and English instructor will become the first research professor and one of the only female faculty members at the Southern Baptist college.
The Spark
How I stopped blaming myself for my son’s overdose death
In Elle’s new series “America Unraveling,” Tamara Olt, an obstetrician based in Peoria, Illinois, talks about her son’s death and slowly moving forward.
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