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Monday's News & Ideas - 11/4/2024

  • Election Day looms
  • Christian couple & gay son
  • UMC disaffiliation ruling
  • Few voters change minds
  • Slave trader plaque in church
  • Occult & science

As Election Day looms, Wisconsin clergy pray and stress that every vote is sacred
Religion News Service: As Election Day nears, clergy in Wisconsin work on getting out the vote and praying for peace as the end of a turbulent campaign draws near.

After their son came out, this conservative Christian couple went into a closet of their own
CNN: The McDonalds thought a gay child was a failure of parenting. That was the dominant teaching in their conservative Christian culture.

United Methodist high court rules against disaffiliation by church closing, sale*
AL.com: The United Methodist Church’s high court ruled against churches who wanted to “disaffiliate” by asking their conference to shut down their church and sell the property back to them.

The evangelical voters who changed their minds*
Christianity Today: Amid a hyperpartisan electorate, a minority plan to vote differently than they did in 2016 and 2020.

Protesters secretly fit slave trader plaque in church*
The Telegraph: Demonstrators installed the plaque underneath a memorial to a 17th-century parishioner who worked for the Royal African Company.

The Spark

How the occult gave birth to science
For scientists of yore, anything — from mermaids to alchemy — was on the table, Nautilus says.

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