Friday's News & Ideas - 11/22/2024
- Campolo’s legacy
- Church lawn dog park
- Wall Street evangelical sentenced
- Young Jews who protest Israel
- Burning down the church machine
- An empty internet gave us Trump
Tony Campolo showed me a different way to be a Christian
Sojourners: When the political operatives of the New Right partnered with Jerry Falwell and other Southern Baptists to use Christian faith to rally a reactionary political movement in the 1970s, Campolo understood what was happening, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove writes.
Got an empty church lawn? Why not turn it into a dog park?
Religion News Service: For some churches, starting a dog park turns underused church property into a place for community.
Wall Street’s most famous evangelical sentenced in unprecedented fraud case*
Christianity Today: Judge gives former billionaire Bill Hwang 18 years in prison for crimes that outweigh his “lifetime” of “charitable works.”
Young, observant Jews find a place to protest Israel in the Halachic Left
Religion News Service: The group, with five chapters across the U.S., believes observant Jews have a particular obligation to oppose what they see as an unjust war — and are uniquely positioned to do so.
Burn down the church machine
UnHerd: Only radical reform will do for the Anglican Church, Giles Fraser says.
The Spark
How an empty internet gave us tradwives and Trump
If you are looking to understand Donald Trump’s unusual hold on our cultural politics,* look to the tradwives, podcast bros and wellness influencers, Tressie McMillan Cottom says in The New York Times.
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