Friday's News & Ideas - 9/25/2020
- Latinos, religion and voting
- Christian leaders on Breonna Taylor
- Vatican cardinal resigns
- Don't demonize white evangelicals
- Nashville pastor Danny Chambers dies
- Yom Kippur's 2020 paradox
Why aren't pollsters asking how religion affects Latinos' voting?
National Catholic Reporter: For all the recent attention on Latinos, does anyone have a real sense of how they might affect the race?
Religion News Service: Biden pins his argument to Latino believers on Trump's morals
Washington Post: Despite Trump’s actions against immigrants, these Latino voters want four more years*
Christian leaders are speaking up about the Breonna Taylor case
Relevant: Across the country, Christian leaders spoke up to mourn the ruling and call on others to cry for justice.
Powerful Vatican Cardinal Becciu resigns amid scandal
Associated Press: The powerful head of the Vatican’s saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resigned suddenly from the post and renounced his rights as a cardinal amid a financial scandal.
Demonizing white evangelicals won’t solve our political divisions
Religion News Service: White evangelicals must bear their share of responsibility for both racism and Christian nationalism. But I do take issue with these legitimate criticisms becoming a license for others to marginalize, even demonize, white evangelical Christians, writes a researcher.
'The earth will feel a great void': Danny Chambers, Nashville pastor who founded Oasis Church, dies
Tennessean: Danny Chambers served as a pastor at Oasis Church in Nashville and is survived by his wife and five children. The cause of death was not immediately known.
The Spark
How can we pray when we have no hope? Yom Kippur's 2020 paradox*
The Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur -- 25 hours of prayer, fasting and atonement -- begins Sunday evening. "We need to come to Yom Kippur this year with more faith, however crazy it might seem, in our own power to enact change. There is no other way forward. There is no Yom Kippur without hope," writes Shira Telushkin in The Forward.
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