Friday's News & Ideas - 4/24/2020
- American Christians are failing
- Catholic entities get SBA loans
- Muslims begin Ramadan
- Black pastors make plea
- ‘Sacrificing the weak’
- A stranger saves a stranger
Some of the most visible Christians in America are failing the coronavirus test
The Atlantic: In place of love, they’re offering stark self-righteous judgment.
20 percent of church entities that applied received SBA loans to maintain staff
Crux: Loans ranged from $89,900 to $1.95 million and allow the entity to continue paying part-time workers even though they are not reporting to work
Muslims around the world face a different kind of Ramadan amid coronavirus
NPR: An unprecedented global pandemic is changing the celebration this year in equally unprecedented ways.
Black pastors urge Trump to focus on virus’s heavy impact on minorities
HuffPost: The Trump administration should funnel resources to Black communities and other marginalized groups that have been hit hard by COVID-19, the pastors say.
On ‘sacrificing the weak’ and these Malthusian times
Sojourners: Economist and Anglican clergyman Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus’s economic framing took on the shape of a religious conviction about who deserves to eat and who deserves to starve.
The Spark
He was on a ventilator, fighting for his life. A stranger sent reinforcements.
11 ounces of gold-colored liquid from the veins of a stranger saved his life, CNN reports.
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