Monday's News & Ideas - 12/9/2019
- UMC conference sues SMU
- Wheaton mental health summit
- Malick’s ‘A Hidden Life’
- India’s religion-based citizenship bill
- Making saints during abuse crisis?
- Olympian chooses to die
SMU sued for severing ties with church
Inside Higher Ed: A UMC conference sues SMU after it amended its governance documents to separate itself from church authority. The move follows actions by the UMC to strengthen prohibitions on same-sex marriage.
United Methodist News Service: Jurisdictional conference sues SMU
Wheaton mental health summit remembers Jarrid Wilson’s ‘legacy of hope’
Religion News Service: About 400 ministry leaders filled a sold-out auditorium at the Billy Graham Center for GC2: Facing Hard Truths and Challenges of Pastoral Ministry, focused on the topics of leadership, burnout and mental health.
In ‘A Hidden Life,’ martyrdom is the cost of faith
America: In February 1943, upon receiving a summons for conscription into the German Wehrmacht, the military forces of Adolf Hitler, the Austrian farmer and Third Order Franciscan Franz Jägerstätter sealed his eventual fate: martyrdom.
Protests erupt as India pushes for religion-based citizenship bill
Reuters: Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in India on Monday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government offered a controversial bill in parliament that would give citizenship to non-Muslim minorities from three neighboring countries.
Church now faces ‘Sheen dilemma’ in evaluating saints and their halos
Crux: After being initially reported that the Vatican had postponed the beatification of Fulton Sheen, the Diocese of Rochester, where Sheen served as an auxiliary bishop from 1959 to 1966, acknowledged in a statement that it had requested the delay “to allow for further review of his role in priests’ assignments.”
The Spark
The champion who picked a date to die
Knowing she had the legal right to die helped Marieke Vervoort* live her life, The New York Times says. It propelled her to medals at the Paralympics. But she could never get away from the pain.
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