Friday's News & Ideas - 11/11/2022

Arrest made in N.J. synagogue threat as FBI director decries antisemitism*
The Washington Post: As the Justice Department announced the arrest, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray was at a conference in New York, denouncing a recent surge of antisemitic acts across the country and saying that the federal law enforcement agency is “hitting back at full force” against domestic and foreign threats targeting American Jews.

Does education ‘cure’ people of faith? The data says no
Religion News Service: Despite a long-standing biased assumption among many that the uneducated cling to religion, studies show people with higher degrees are most likely to be religious.

Female clergy face ‘institutionalized discrimination,’ campaigners claim
The Guardian: Thirty years after the Church of England took the historic step of allowing women to become priests, equality campaigners say female clergy still face “institutionalized discrimination.”

In Brazil as it is in Texas?
Sojourners: For those of us discouraged by the recent trends in U.S. politics, looking to Brazil shows us that the narratives and dividing lines are not as entrenched as they may seem.

Who will love the ugly things?*
The Christian Century: “It is easy to love God from a place of comfort and beauty … The challenge is holding onto that same thankfulness in the ugly places, even if our human emotions would have us believe that God is absent,” writes Yolanda Pierce.

The Spark

What’s it like to be an editor of a prison newspaper?
The incarcerated editor of The Nash News in North Carolina shares about the power of higher ed and his work at the prison newspaper for JSTOR Daily.

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