Monday's News & Ideas - 2/28/2022

How is Russia-Ukraine war linked to religion?
Associated Press: Even though Russian President Vladimir Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine in part as a defense of the Moscow-oriented Orthodox church, leaders of both Ukrainian Orthodox factions are fiercely denouncing the Russian invasion, as is Ukraine’s significant Catholic minority.
Christianity Today: During Sunday siege, Ukraine’s churches persevere
Religion Dispatches: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is not calling for peace — in fact, he’s Putin’s accomplice

Europe welcomes Ukrainian refugees but others, less so
Associated Press: “These are not the refugees we are used to ... these people are Europeans,” Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov told journalists earlier this week, of the Ukrainians.

‘Delay means death’: We're running out of ways to adapt to the climate crisis, new report shows.
CNN: Climate change is on course to transform life on Earth as we know it, and unless global warming is dramatically slowed, billions of people and other species will reach points where they can no longer adapt to the new normal, according to a major report published Monday.

Former evangelicals are putting the American church under a microscope in pop culture
Vox: From Lucy Dacus to Danny McBride, more great art is examining evangelicalism’s relationship to America.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson: ‘One can only come this far by faith’
Religion News Service: ‘I must begin these very brief remarks by thanking God for delivering me to this point in my professional journey’' said Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The Spark

Evolutionary road: Darwin’s great theory was years in the making
In truth, the Galápagos as the hallowed site where evolutionary lightning struck shortchanges Darwin’s real story, and the way science* itself progresses, The American Scholar says.

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