Monday's News & Ideas - 1/29/2024

Religious but not spiritual? Meet the skeptics favoring ritual over the supernatural
Religion News Service: Ten percent of Americans can be categorized as religious but not spiritual, according to a December 2023 study from Pew Research Center.

Religious trauma still haunts millions of LGBTQ Americans
NBC News: Some mental health experts are advocating for religious trauma to be considered an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Crumbling churches are ‘UK’s biggest heritage challenge’
The Guardian: Thousands of places of worship have shut since 2013 and more than 900 are on the “heritage at risk” register.

Arab and Muslim leaders In Michigan cancel meeting with Biden campaign
HuffPost: Community leaders rejected attempts to hold the meeting, saying that the damage had already been done by Joe Biden’s administration.

Israeli government ministers join gathering calling for resettlement of Gaza
Al Jazeera: The far-right conference urges the government to set up new Jewish settlements in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

The Spark

“Do I have to come here injured or dead?”

Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga was one of the first mothers separated* from her children at the border by the Trump Administration. The cruelty she suffered in the United States was matched only by what she was forced to flee in Honduras, The New Yorker says.

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