Monday's News & Ideas - 11/28/2022

Hong Kong court convicts Cardinal Zen, 5 others over fund to help arrested protestors
Associated Press: A 90-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal and five others in Hong Kong were fined after being found guilty Friday of failing to register a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people arrested in the widespread protests three years ago.

Vineyard USA founder’s widow, board members sue breakaway Anaheim pastors, alleging fraud
Religion News Service: A pair of California pastors say God told them to lead the Anaheim Vineyard out of its home denomination. Former board members say the pastors committed fraud to do that. At stake is $62 million in assets.

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: ‘There are quite a few areas where physics blurs into religion’
The Guardian: To answer life’s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse.

Democracy as a sacred endeavor — a conversation with Adam Russell Taylor
Deseret News: The president of Sojourners talks about the connection between voting and faith, and how voting protects the image of God in every person in a democracy

How Aisha Wahab beat the naysayers to become California’s first Muslim state senator
HuffPost: Wahab tapped into what she learned growing up in the foster care system to win her race and become the first Afghan American elected to the state Senate.

The Spark

Set adrift
Driven by COVID chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans* went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the Pacific. They found a different fate, The New York Times says.

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