Friday's News & Ideas - 12/17/2021
- Haiti missionaries released
- The other Mars Hill
- Why are we still at work?
- Trump to visit First Baptist Dallas
- America’s death penalty divide
- Anti-racist lawn libraries
All from US missionary group freed in Haiti, police say
Associated Press: The remaining members of a U.S. missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed, Haitian police and the church group said Thursday.
Christianity Today: Free at last: All 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti have been released
At the other Mars Hill church, new co-pastors hope to build a faithful future
Religion News Service: Ashlee Eiland, who is Black, and Troy Hatfield, who is white, are a rare combination — co-pastors at an evangelical church, who are from different ethnic backgrounds and not married to each other.
The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?
Vox: From the pandemic to climate change, Americans are still expected to work no matter what happens.
Trump will visit First Baptist Dallas this Sunday while on ‘History Tour’ with Bill O’Reilly
Baptist News Global: Trump has announced where he’ll be this year the Sunday morning before Christmas — with his loyal advocate Robert Jeffress at First Baptist Church of Dallas.
America’s death penalty divide: why capital punishment is getting better, and worse
The Guardian: This year the US saw the fewest executions since 1988, but those states sticking with judicial killings are displaying grotesque aberrations.
The Spark
New lawn libraries are popping up across the country, and they’re stocked with just one kind of book: Anti-racist
Little Free Libraries have inspired similar take-what-you-like concepts of Little Free Pantries and Little Free Art Galleries. Now, they’re inspiring something else: the anti-racist little library,* says The Washington Post.
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