Monday's News & Ideas - 2/7/2022

The threat to Roe v. Wade is driving a religious movement for reproductive choice*
The Washington Post: Americans who see a religious case for abortion access try to shift the narrative.

States of disbelief: Non-believers wrestle with life after religion
Religion & Politics: The doldrums of isolation — feelings now well known to many in the pandemic era — are especially heavy for anyone shunned by family and friends for choosing to shed their former beliefs.

As workers seek to unionize, some clergy are filling a crucial role
Religion News Service: ‘We can actually put to life our Catholic social teaching regarding work in a real, concrete way,’ said the Rev. Sinclair Oubre.

Duane King, pastor who saw the need for a sign language Bible
Christianity Today: He didn’t know anything about deafness. But he believed the gospel is for everyone.

The dissenters trying to save evangelicalism from itself*
The New York Times: Of course there is a lot of division across many parts of American society. But for evangelicals, who have dedicated their lives to Jesus, the problem is deeper, David Brooks says.

The Spark

The common tongue of twenty-first-century London
Schoolchildren in the British capital have developed a dialect,* Multicultural London English, The New Yorker says.

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