Monday's News & Ideas - 11/27/2023
- Estimating ‘nones’ under 30
- Jehovah’s Witnesses’ proselytizing
- Blessed are the thrifty
- Is abortion a religious freedom?
- NOLA church goes solar
- We are breaching climate agreement
Americans under 30 don’t trust religion — or anything else*
The New York Times: “The estimates vary on this, but it’s empirically defensible to say that at least 40 percent of Gen Z are nones now,” Ryan Burge says.
Timekeepers no more, rank-and-file Jehovah’s Witnesses say goodbye to tracking proselytizing hours
The Associated Press: For the first time since 1920, leaders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses have removed the hours-reporting requirement for rank-and-file adherents.
Blessed are the thrifty?*
Christianity Today: Jesus’ teachings challenge how we spend when money is tight.
Abortion concerns once delayed a major religious freedom law. Now, they’re back in the spotlight
Deseret News: Do religious exercise rights protect access to abortion? Courts have been asked to decide
This New Orleans religious community took control of its climate fate
Mother Jones: “We realized that we had to stop waiting for a fix and do it ourselves.”
The Spark
What breaching 1.5C this year means for curbing climate change
2023 may overshoot the Paris agreement target for the first time, Vox says. What does that mean for climate negotiations?
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