Friday's News & Ideas - 1/29/2021

Betraying your church -- and your party*
The Atlantic: How Representative Adam Kinzinger, an evangelical Republican, decided to vote for impeachment -- and start calling out his church.

At Amanda Gorman’s Black Catholic LA parish, ‘it’s like everybody here is a freedom fighter’
Religion News Service: Poet Amanda Gorman sang in the youth choir, did her sacraments and recited her poetry at an Afrocentric Catholic church in South Central Los Angeles.

What does it mean to be white? Charlotte church works to teach anti-racism
The Charlotte Observer: This program, which forms monthly, is a 6-week anti-racism training conducted by the Rev. Ben Boswell. Born out of a desire to add substance, direction and honesty to conversations by participants about racism in response to the threat of white supremacy, Boswell’s program uses the texts of Black authors to educate primarily white audiences.

How to fix the Asian American female pastor dilemma
Christianity Today: New “PastoraLab” equips women in ministry who feel torn between their culture’s churches and their calling to lead.

‘Safely open the doors of our sanctuary churches,’ members of Congress urge Biden
Sojourners: Members of Congress, led by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), wrote President Joe Biden a letter asking him to ensure those taking sanctuary in houses of worship would be protected from deportation. They also asked the Biden-Harris administration to lift the deportation orders against all people living in sanctuary.

The Spark

Meet YInMn, the first new blue pigment in two centuries
The vibrant pigment, created accidentally in 2009 by chemists at Oregon State University, is now commercially available, Hyperallergic says.

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