Monday's News & Ideas - 11/14/2022
- Christian Nationalism won’t go away
- Church leaders & Kanye
- Brazil clergy face threats
- Missionary to nationalists
- Overload of grief
- Bountiful friendship
Why white Christian Nationalism isn’t going away
Time: White Christian nationalists systematically over-estimate their strength in numbers. And they will almost certainly do so in the future.
Everyone is cutting ties with Kanye West. For church leaders, it’s not that simple*
The Los Angeles Times: Many in the church community rejoiced at seeing a Goliath in pop culture put Jesus front and center. Sunday Service sprouted from Calabasas and became a traveling phenomenon, landing at Coachella on Easter Sunday and stopping in various churches across America.
Progressive clergy in Brazil facing death threats after Lula’s election
Crux: Auxiliary Bishop Vicente de Paula Ferreira of the Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte was threatened by an armed man after a Mass on November 12 in the suburban city of Moeda, in a sign of the political violence facing members of the clergy in Brazil.
A ‘missionary to Christian nationalists,’ Phoenix pastor urges conversion, not confrontation
Religion News Service: Caleb Campbell hopes hospitality and kindness — rather than arguments — can lead away from the fusion of God and country.
How to handle an overload of grief
Vox: When losses stack up, how are you supposed to manage?
The Spark
A Japanese American family, a Native American tribe and a bountiful friendship
In the face of discrimination and hate, the Inabas and the Yakama Nation forged a bond* through a farm in eastern Washington that has lasted for more than 100 years, The New York Times says.
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