Friday's News & Ideas - 5/27/2022
- SBC releases list of alleged abusers
- AME exec may have embezzled millions
- TX Catholic leader for gun regulations
- Episcopal Church awards reparations
- Hinduization of India
- Commodified Basquiat
Southern Baptists release list of alleged sex abusers*
The New York Times: The document’s existence, once kept secret, was revealed just days ago, sending shock waves through the denomination.
AME Church alleges former retirement services exec embezzled tens of millions
Religion News Service: After an independent investigation, the denomination concluded that Harris deposited funds from the plan into his personal checking account.
Top Texas Catholic endorses new gun regulations after Uvalde massacre
HuffPost: “We’re supposed to promote life, the life of people,” Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller said.
Episcopal Church awards reparations for ‘restoring Black communities’*
The Washington Post: Nearly two years after it established a fund to make reparations for systemic racism and slavery, the Maryland Episcopal Church awarded $180,000 in grant money Thursday to its inaugural class of organizations doing the work of “restoring African American and Black communities.”
The Hinduization of India is nearly complete*
The Atlantic: Narendra Modi’s ethnonationalist rule is unraveling the country’s constitutional commitment to its Muslim and Christian minorities.
The Spark
The commodification of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Since his death, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work has been co-opted, emptied of all political content, and commodified to be sold as an image of New York’s vanishing cool, Jacobin says.
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