Friday's News & Ideas - 5/6/2022
- Cats of Maus
- Russia’s nationalist cathedral
- COVID outbreak at conference
- Courts & religious beliefs
- Green church movement
- Twisted roots of ancestry
The cats of Maus*
Christian Century: Reading Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic novel with Christian eyes.
What a cathedral and a massive military parade show about Putin’s Russia
The Conversation: The fusion of World War II, religion and Russian nationalism are embodied in one unusual building: the Main Church of the Russian Armed Forces, on the outskirts of Moscow.
Pennsylvania bishop reveals COVID-19 outbreak among attendees of clergy conference
Episcopal News Service: At least 41 clergy members in the Diocese of Pennsylvania tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a clergy conference last week, Bishop Daniel Gutiérrez revealed May 3 in a letter to the Philadelphia-based diocese.
Should courts assess the sincerity of religious beliefs?*
The Atlantic: Judges have a tendency to be too credulous when it comes to matters of faith.
God’s own gardens: why churchyards are some of our wildest nature sites
The Guardian: Peaceful, unpolluted and often left untouched for centuries, a growing green church movement is helping these havens of biodiversity thrive.
The Spark
Our obsession with ancestry has some twisted roots
From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy* to serve our own purposes, The New Yorker says.
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