Friday's News & Ideas - 9/8/2023
- Mental health crisis among youth
- Christians own more dogs than cats
- Catholic Church’s archives in Chile
- “Soccer Moses”
- Palestinian president criticized
- Rotten Tomatoes gone bad
There’s a mental health crisis among youth. The church can help
Sojourners: According to the 2023 Mental Health America Report, more than 16 percent of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 suffered from at least one major depressive episode in the past year — that’s over 2.7 million young people.
The people of dog: Christians own more canines than cats*
Christianity Today: Three quarters of pet-owning Christians (75%) in the US have dogs, while less than half (43%) possess cats.
The Catholic Church defended human rights during Chile’s dictatorship. An archive tells the story
The Associated Press: Lined up like soldiers guarding a nation’s treasures, dozens of shelves preserve an archive that gives account of a painful episode in Chile’s history: 47,000 instances of human rights violations during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
As Soccer Moses, Jars of Clay guitarist Stephen Mason finds unexpected joy
Religion News Service: The rocker said soccer is a bit like life — sometimes sad, other times glorious.
Palestinian president condemned over Holocaust remarks
The Guardian: Mahmoud Abbas said last month that Jews were murdered for their ‘social role’ as money lenders, not because they were Jewish.
The Spark
The decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes
The most overrated metric* in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip, Vulture says.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
