Friday's News & Ideas - 2/14/2025
- Founding CRC church to leave
- Pastoral-care crisis in DC
- Brooklyn church affordable housing
- A ‘death rally’
- Diocese bankruptcy trend
- Gen Z is staying at home
Founding congregation to exit Christian Reformed Church*
Christianity Today: Few legal entanglements complicate the departure, but there is a lot of grief over the denominational division.
In nation’s capital, Trump’s cuts and funding freezes spur pastoral-care crisis
Religion News Service: “To have more than half your congregation receive notices to resign or face the risk of losing a job, is a super, super big deal,” said DC-area evangelical pastor Bishop Derek Grier.
A Brooklyn church hopes to build on its parking lot to help housing crisis
Religion News Service: St. Paul Community Baptist Church believes up to 800 affordable units could be built on its main parking lot.
Death doulas have a term for what’s happening to our church and our country
Sojourners: A “death rally” is an occurrence when a patient shows signs of recovery just before their passing.
Why so many Catholic churches file for bankruptcy
Searchlight New Mexico: As sex abuse scandals continue to haunt the Catholic Church, many dioceses are turning to Chapter 11 as a way to settle hundreds of claims at once.
The Spark
Why Gen Z will never leave home
Thanks to soaring housing costs, a generation of twentysomethings are still in their childhood bedrooms, MacLean’s says. A portrait of family life with no empty nest.
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