Friday's News & Ideas - 12/20/2024
- Humanize children of Gaza
- Jewish composer of Christmas music
- Young women becoming nuns
- Did enslaved people write NT?
- Finding refuge in Lebanon
- Solar boom
Palestinian Christians call on western churches to ‘humanize’ the children of Gaza
The Conversation: In a recent message for the first Sunday of Advent, the Rev. Munther Isaac, one of the foremost Palestinian Christian theologians, issued a letter pleading for the world to “humanize the children of Gaza, the children of Palestine.”
Why composers of any (or no) faith are drawn to sacred music*
The New York Times: Many Christmas standards were not written by Christians. David Lang explains the appeal for him, a Jewish composer of a modern holiday classic.
Meet the young women joining the ranks of Catholic nuns, a journey that can take up to ten years
The Associated Press: Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. That number has remained steady in the past decade but shows little signs of increasing.
The Associated Press: Takeaways from AP’s reporting on young nuns
Did enslaved people write the New Testament?*
The Christian Century: Candida Moss argues that when early Christian texts were written, unpaid laborers were in the room where it happened.
A Shiite and a Catholic find refuge — and friendship — at Baptist Seminary Shelter*
Christianity Today: From war to ceasefire, two Lebanese men bond during a traumatic three months.
The Spark
The solar rush
A planet-wide solar boom has been beating expectations at every turn, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation says. And it’s only just the beginning.
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