Monday's News & Ideas - 2/20/2023
- Don’t ignore tragedy in Ukraine
- Jimmy Carter’s church prays for former president
- LA bishop killed in shooting
- Interfaith reparations effort at Harvard
- Evangelical and ecumenical Christians
- Love and death in Ukraine
We cannot ignore the human tragedy unfolding in Ukraine
National Catholic Reporter: The heroic defiance of the Ukrainian military and its people this past year cannot allow us to ignore the human tragedy that is unfolding before our eyes, even though casualty estimates are difficult to make while the fighting is ongoing.
Jimmy Carter’s church asks for comfort for his family as the former president enters hospice care
CNN: The church where Jimmy Carter taught Sunday school for decades marked his poignant absence this weekend as the former president receives end-of-life care.
Deseret News: Perspective: How Jimmy Carter became a national treasure
Los Angeles Bishop David O’Connell dies in shooting
Religion News Service: Bishop David O’Connell, 69, is known to have ministered to those affected by gang violence and poverty, and he was regarded as a “peacemaker” between rival gangs.
Harvard, National Council of Churches, Reform Jews seeking reparations blueprint
Religion News Service: A professor and students at Harvard Kennedy School are joining forces with prominent Christian and Jewish organizations to develop a faith-based blueprint to advance the possibility of reparations for African Americans.
Beware drawing bright lines between evangelical and ecumenical Protestants*
Christianity Today: The divisions between these “parties” are important. So are the divisions within them, writes Heath W. Carter in a review of “Christianity’s American Fate.”
The Spark
They were married. They shared a trench. They died in it together.
Taras and Olha Melster signed up to help the war effort. Like many other urban professionals in Ukraine, they never expected to be sent to the front line,* says The New York Times.
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