Friday's News & Ideas - 7/22/2022
- PTSD among pastors
- Vatican’s Indigenous artifacts
- Amy Grant honored at Kennedy
- Perceived threat of sexual freedom
- Islam & Ms. Marvel
- Jim Thorpe’s Olympic gold medals
A pastor ripped apart by our divided country*
The New York Times: For Dan White Jr., a trauma diagnosis pushed him toward a new calling: helping other exhausted faith leaders find peace.
Vatican says they’re gifts; Indigenous groups want them back
Associated Press: The Vatican’s Anima Mundi Ethnological Museum houses tens of thousands of artifacts and art made by Indigenous peoples from around the world, much of it sent to Rome by Catholic missionaries for a 1925 exhibition in the Vatican gardens.
Amy Grant named Kennedy Center honoree in first for contemporary Christian music
Religion News Service: ‘Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine ever receiving this prestigious Kennedy Center Honors,’ Grant said in a statement.
What really drives anti-abortion beliefs? Research suggests it’s a matter of sexual strategies
The Conversation: The crux of this argument is that, for sexually restricted people, other people’s sexual freedoms represent threats.
Islam inspires Ms. Marvel’s show and comics in different ways
Polygon: In one iconic Islamic hero, we get two different invocations of Kamala’s culture.
The Spark
Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Olympic gold medals are finally reinstated
Officials removed the Native American athlete’s victories from Olympic records in 1913, Smithsonian Magazine says.
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