Friday's News & Ideas - 2/11/2022

Study: Clergy feel ill-equipped to help Black and Latino congregants with mental health
Religion News Service: Pastors, whether they want to be or not, “are on the front lines of this mental health crisis,” said an author of the study.

West Virginia students to stage walkout over Christian revival at high school
Associated Press: Students were instructed to raise their arms in prayer at event in public school’s auditorium.

One year in, Biden job approval down among Black Protestants, other Christians and religious ‘nones’
Pew Research Center: About a year into his presidency, Joe Biden’s job approval rating is much lower among the U.S. public overall — and among most demographic groups — than it was in the early months of his administration.

Christian nationalism drove Jan. 6: Now it’s embraced the Big Lie, and wants to conquer America*
Salon: America has a choice between democracy and Christian nationalism, says author of a new report: “We can’t have both.”

How to sustain minority-led and locally led nonprofits? Endow them
Devex: Philanthropists and nonprofits must move beyond just talking about providing more funding for social equality-focused organizations led by people of color and actually consider how endowing them would help sustain their work over the long term.

The Spark

There is nothing normal about one million people dead from COVID
Mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre‐COVID times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll, Scientific American says.

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