Friday's News & Ideas - 3/4/2022
- UMC split in May
- Pandemic’s depressing pattern
- Holocaust memorial hit in Ukraine
- Bible smuggler
- ADL report
- What matters the most
Global Methodist Church announces May launch, split from United Methodist Church over LGBTQ rights*
The Tennessean: The Global Methodist Church, a new, more conservative Methodist denomination, announced Thursday it will officially launch in May, the biggest step so far in the highly anticipated split of the United Methodist Church over LGBTQ rights.
The pandemic is following a very predictable and depressing pattern*
The Atlantic: As with diseases such as malaria and HIV, rich countries are moving on from COVID while poor ones continue to get ravaged.
After claiming he wanted to ‘denazify’ Ukraine, Putin strikes Holocaust memorial site
HuffPost: Babyn Yar is the site of one of the worst mass killings of Jews during World War II.
A moment that changed me: I was so desperate to leave home I agreed to smuggle 80,000 Bibles into the USSR
The Guardian: Peter Waterdrinker’s journey from Bible smuggler to novel writer.
White supremacist propaganda fell slightly; antisemitic disinformation grew
Religion News Service: The report from the Anti-Defamation League concluded that 2021 propaganda campaigns remained historically high.
The Spark
Does my son know you? Fatherhood, cancer, and what matters most
“I have already told some of my friends: When I see you in heaven, there’s only one thing I’m going to ask — Were you good to my son and my wife?” Jonathan Tjarks writes at The Ringer.
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