Monday's News & Ideas - 2/18/2019
- UMC's 'hopeful' time
- Catholics & SBC, lessons
- Vatican abuse summit
- S.C. foster agency lawsuit
- PC(USA) seminary selling land
- Beauty of sand
Historic United Methodist church sees 'hopeful' time for LGBTQ Christians
Religion News Service: United Methodists are looking to the meeting of the denomination's decision-making body to end a decades-long stalemate over the status of LGBTQ church members.
What Catholics and Southern Baptists can learn from each other about sex abuse crisis
Religion News Service: The existence of clergy sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention provides no satisfaction to Catholics, but it does allow us to test our theories about the causes of abuse, Thomas Reese says.
Credibility of Catholic Church at stake in sexual abuse summit
The (London) Guardian: Vatican under pressure to show it is serious about dealing with crisis at Rome meeting.
The (London) Guardian: Pope defrocks ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick over abuse claims
In lawsuit, a Catholic mother from Simpsonville alleges discrimination by Miracle Hill
Associated Press: A Catholic mother says a federally funded foster agency stopped working with her and won't allow her to foster children because she's "not the right kind of Christian."
Presbyterian seminary selling land for 70+ new homes by Cherokee Park
The Louisville Courier-Journal: Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary is selling approximately 25.5 acres of its property for $13.4 million, and more than 70 new homes could go in as part of the sale.
The Spark
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