Monday's News & Ideas - 2/3/2025
- DC airport chaplain
- ICE arrest at Atlanta church
- Budde returns to church
- Emails from NFL’s Saints
- Reform seminary sells building
- Why children’s books?
For DC airport chaplain, disaster training becomes reality
Religion News Service: Airport chaplain Nace Lanier, among the first to respond to the midair collision near Washington’s airport, joined a team “to holistically care for the hurting and confused.”
When ICE comes to church*
Christianity Today: In Atlanta, immigration agents arrested a Honduran man outside the church he helped plant. Is it an isolated case or the start of a trend?
What happens after you ask Trump to ‘have mercy’? Threats, praise and hope.*
The Washington Post: Bishop Mariann Budde returned to Washington National Cathedral on Sunday for her first public service since her viral inauguration sermon.
NFL emails reveal extent of Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis
The Associated Press: As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city’s NFL franchise.
Jewish Reform seminary sells New York City building as contraction accelerates
Religion News Service: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion announced the sale of the Greenwich Village building at West 4th Street to New York University. It will move to another building also in Manhattan.
The Spark
Why children’s books?
In being written for those to whom the world is new and strange, children’s literature can be a form of distillation: of what it means to hope, to fear, to yearn, distilled down and down into a piece of concentrated meaning, The London Review of Books says.
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