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Monday's News & Ideas - 2/14/2022

  • Seminarians going into business?
  • Wariness of vaccine exemptions
  • GiveSendGo money for truckers
  • Dining hall labor shortage
  • Portugal sex abuse cases
  • Science of baby sleep

Are today’s seminarians tomorrow’s corporate leaders?
Religion News Service: Several seminaries have begun to answer America’s need for ethical and social leadership in the workplace.

Many faith leaders wary of religious exemptions for vaccine
Associated Press: By the thousands, Americans have been seeking religious exemptions in order to circumvent COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Canadian judge blocks money for truckers from U.S. right-wing Christian fundraising site
HuffPost: GiveSendGo claims Canada has no jurisdiction across borders, even as it funds a protest in another country.

Yale and Princeton dining halls face food shortages and fewer staff*
Bloomberg: Students returning to cafeterias now that the omicron variant is starting to ease are finding more limited menus and fewer staff — the same supply chain constraints and labor shortages wrought by the pandemic elsewhere.

Portugal: Church sex abuse panel unearths more than 200 cases
Al Jazeera: The allegations, from people born between 1933 and 2006, tell of psychological torment kept secret for decades.

The Spark

The science of healthy baby sleep
Mention you’ve had a baby, and almost everyone will ask one thing: how is she sleeping? The BBC says.

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