Friday's News & Ideas - 4/28/2023
- Disaffiliating UMC clergy credentials
- CofE on singleness
- Religion in Texas public schools
- Christian college closures
- Discrimination against moms
- The experience of tuning in together
UMC top court rules disaffiliating clergy don’t automatically lose credentials
Religion News Service: A Wisconsin bishop had required clergy whose churches were disaffiliating to give up their jobs or their credentials.
It’s OK to be single, the Church of England says: So was Jesus*
The New York Times: In a new report, a church commission looking at families and households called on society to “honor and celebrate singleness.”
The Ten Commandments could be in every Texas classroom next fall
Vox: Why religion in public schools is making a comeback.
18 Christian colleges closed since the start of COVID-19*
Christianity Today: Enrollment numbers, financial challenges and the pandemic spelled the end.
The ‘open secret’ in most workplaces: Discrimination against moms is still rampant
The 19th: Moms are still often laid off while on parental leave, pushed out of workplaces and subjected to stereotypes about their competency. But with few legal protections, attorneys say most cases go unreported.
The Spark
Archivists are working to capture not just tapes of TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together
Radio and television fostered an ephemeral and invisible public arena that expanded our understanding of the world — and ourselves, writes Michael J. Socolow in The Conversation.
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