Friday's News & Ideas - 5/3/2024
- UMC removes anti-gay language
- Religious voters’ views on Biden & Trump
- Student journalists on protests
- Christian NBA team
- Chicago churches & sanctuary status
- Revenge of the home page
United Methodists remove anti-gay language from their official teachings on societal issues
Associated Press: United Methodist delegates on Thursday removed a 52-year-old declaration from their official social teachings that deemed “the practice of homosexuality ... incompatible with Christian teaching” — part of a wider series of historic reversals of the denomination’s longstanding disapproval of LGBTQ activity.
Voters’ views of Trump and Biden differ sharply by religion
Pew Research Center: More than half of white Christians think Trump was a “great” or “good” president and don’t think he broke the law in an effort to change the outcome of the 2020 election.
What’s really happening on college campuses, according to student journalists
POLITICO: Leaders of campus news organizations set the record straight about campus unrest, antisemitism and what the media is getting wrong.
The basketball team created to represent God*
Christianity Today: The Dallas Mavericks were intended to be the first Christian team in the NBA.
Chicago churches oppose calls to end city’s sanctuary status
Sojourners: In 1985, Chicago Mayor Harold Washington passed an ordinance prohibiting city workers from cooperating with immigration police to detain and deport undocumented migrants.
The Spark
The revenge of the home page
As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital* journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate, The New Yorker says.
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