Friday's News & Ideas - 1/5/2024
- Trump is more religious, GOP voters say
- Kim Davis ordered to pay additional fee
- New religious buildings in Xinjiang
- Native Hawaiian salt makers
- The Book of Kells
- I left my faith. God didn’t flinch.
Republican voters say Trump is more religious and more a ‘person of faith’ than Biden, Pence or Romney
Baptist News Global: More Republican voters believe Donald Trump is a “person of faith” and “religious” than think the same of Joe Biden, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney or any of the current contenders for the Republican presidential nomination.
Deseret News: Most Republicans think Donald Trump is a person of faith. We asked why
Ex-Kentucky clerk Kim Davis ordered to pay additional $260,000 to gay couple
HuffPost: The award follows a jury in September ordering her to pay $100,000 after she refused to grant the same-sex couple a marriage license in 2015.
China’s Xinjiang region says all new religious buildings must ‘reflect Chinese characteristics’
South China Morning Post: New regulations also state that any significant alterations to mosques must be referred to the authorities in the region, which is home to many Uygur Muslims.
Native Hawaiian salt makers combat climate change and pollution to protect a sacred tradition
The Associated Press: Sacred salt can be traded or given away, but must never be sold. Hawaiians use it in cooking, healing, rituals and as protection.
Were the monks on drugs? How The Book of Kells went fully psychedelic
The Guardian: Spirited to Ireland to save it from the Vikings, this wild illumination of the New Testament, full of gilded curls and coils, is one of the most ecstatic artworks ever – and now it’s gone gloriously immersive
The Spark
I left my faith. God didn’t flinch.
Even though I am no longer observant, my religious upbringing* is still essential to me, Temim Fruchter writes at The New York Times.
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