Friday's News & Ideas - 12/15/2023
- Students for Justice in Palestine group
- IHOPKC’s Mike Bickle speaks
- CoE begins blessing same-sex couples
- Execution could violate religious liberty
- Stabbing of synagogue leader not hate crime
- US military’s carbon emission
How a student group is influencing a generation’s views on Palestine*
The New Yorker: Activists with Students for Justice in Palestine have mobilized major campus demonstrations in support of Gaza—and provided an intellectual framework for protesters watching what’s happening in the Middle East.
Mike Bickle confesses to past ‘moral failures’ but not sexual abuse*
Christianity Today: The International House of Prayer founder speaks out for the first time as the ministry launches a third-party inquiry.
‘A long journey’: blessings for same-sex couples expose Church of England divisions
The Guardian: This Sunday, Church of England clergy can voluntarily use special “prayers of love and faith” to bless same-sex couples. It is a significant moment, but not an end to arguments and campaigning.
Alabama’s upcoming gas execution could harm witnesses and violate religious liberty
NPR: The state of Alabama plans to execute a prisoner in January using nitrogen hypoxia, a process so novel and untested that state officials required the man's spiritual adviser to sign a waiver that said he could be exposed to the gas.
A man was charged in the fatal stabbing of beloved Detroit synagogue president. The two didn’t know each other, police say
CNN: “Let me state very clearly … there are no facts to suggest that this defendant knew Ms. Woll and there are certainly no facts to suggest that this was a hate crime,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said during a Wednesday news conference.
The Spark
‘Elephant in the room’: The US military’s devastating carbon footprint
The US military emits more than entire industrialized nations like Portugal and Denmark, yet evades scrutiny, Al Jazeera says.
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